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3 Pfenninge
| Issuer | Rostock, City of |
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| Year | 1859 |
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| Value | 3 Pfennigs (3 Pfennige) (1⁄96) |
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| Reverse description | The denomination numeral 3 is prominently displayed in the upper portion of the field, flanked on either side by a small six-petalled rosette ornament. Beneath, the word PFENNINGE is inscribed in bold capital letters across the center of the field. The date 1859 occupies the lower central area, with the engraver's initials B.S. placed below in smaller characters. A beaded rim encircles the entire reverse, consistent with the obverse treatment. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Rostock retained the right to strike its own municipal coinage well into the nineteenth century, an anachronism even by German standards. By 1859, the city's independent minting authority was already a relic — German monetary unification was less than a decade away, and small copper pfennig issues like this one were among the last gasps of the old particularist system before the North German Confederation swept it aside.