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3 Pfennige - Frederick Francis II Silver pattern strike
| Issuer | Wismar, City of |
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| Year | 1854 |
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| Value | 3 Pfennigs (3 Pfennige) (1⁄192) |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA NOVA WISMARIENSIS. |
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| Mintage | 1854 S |
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Wismar's monetary autonomy was already a dead letter by 1854 — the city had been under Swedish suzerainty for nearly two centuries before passing to Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1803, and German monetary unification pressures were making local coinage increasingly untenable. This piece was struck as a pattern, never authorized for circulation, likely produced to satisfy a specific administrative or documentary requirement rather than any genuine minting program.
Kunzel 324 is the standard reference for Wismar civic coinage and pattern issues. Silver at this denomination was itself an anomaly — a 3 Pfennig piece had no economic rationale in the metal.