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3 Pfennig - Frederick Francis
| Issuer | Wismar, City of |
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| Year | 1829-1830 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Wismar's early 19th-century copper issues reflect the city's awkward political position: nominally under Swedish suzerainty since 1648, it was only formally ceded to the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1803 — though Sweden retained a contractual right of redemption for 100 years. Frederick Francis I, reigning duke at the time of this striking, was consolidating Mecklenburg's administrative grip on the city precisely during these years, and the local coinage was part of that assertion of practical authority.