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3 Pfennig - Moritz
| Issuer | Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda, County of |
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| Year | 1655-1659 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | III |
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Moritz von Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda ruled a fragmented territory whose scattered holdings across northwestern Germany made consistent coinage administration a persistent headache. These copper Pfennig issues of the late 1650s fall within a period of post-Westphalian monetary chaos, when dozens of minor Westphalian counts exploited their imperial minting rights to flood local markets with small copper coin — often at weights that technically satisfied the letter of imperial standards while undermining their spirit.
Kennepohl's classification of this piece as 95a distinguishes it from related die variants within the Bentheim-Tecklenburg series, a distinction that matters more to specialists in Westphalian minor coinage than the KM reference alone would suggest.