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3 Pfennig St. Remigius Stift Borken
| Issuer | St. Remigius Stift Borken |
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| Year | 1501-1600 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | Frontal bust of Saint Remigius in bishop's vestments, wearing a mitre, set within a beaded inner border. The saint is depicted in a stylized, flat hammered relief characteristic of 16th-century German ecclesiastical coinage. Flanking the bust on either side are the initials S and R in large Gothic letterstyle, standing for Sanctus Remigius, with small six-pointed stars placed in the four quadrants of the field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The St. Remigius collegiate chapter at Borken held the right to issue small copper coinage as part of the broader ecclesiastical minting privileges that scattered across the Prince-Bishopric of Münster throughout the sixteenth century. Such chapter issues were strictly local, circulating within the immediate market town and its dependencies rather than across any wider territory. The 3 Pfennig denomination sat at the absolute lower end of practical commerce — bread, small measures of grain, tolls at minor crossings.
Borken itself remained a modest Westphalian town whose economy depended heavily on linen production and regional agricultural trade throughout this period.