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3 Schilling
| Issuer | City of Cologne (German States) |
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| Year | 1577-1579 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse lettering | ROMANO. IMPE. SEMPER. AUGUS |
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| Mint | Cologne City Mint |
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Cologne's municipal coinage of the 1570s operated in direct tension with the Archbishop's competing mint rights — the city and its ecclesiastical overlord maintained separate issuing authorities, a friction that flared repeatedly into legal disputes before the Imperial Chamber Court. This three-schilling piece falls squarely into that contested period, struck while the city jealously defended its civic minting privileges against archiepiscopal encroachment.
Noss's cataloguing of Cologne's municipal series remains the definitive reference, with the Co IV#190 designation placing this among the later emissions of the type, distinguished from earlier dies by minor legend variations.