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3 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Soest, City of |
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| Year | 1728-1732 |
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| Value | 3 Pfennigs (3 Pfennige) (1/4) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | STADT SOEST 1731 |
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Soest had been a Hanseatic powerhouse in the medieval period, but by the early eighteenth century the city was operating as a modest Westphalian town under Prussian suzerainty following the Peace of Westphalia. The right to strike small copper pfennig coinage was jealously retained by German municipalities as a marker of local civic autonomy, even as larger denominational authority had long since passed to territorial rulers.
The KM#65 attribution covers a five-year emission window, suggesting periodic restrikes rather than continuous production — common for low-value copper issues where dies were reused until failure.