4 Gute Pfennig

Einbeck's civic coinage of the 1660s was produced under increasingly strained circumstances — the city had never fully recovered economically from its sacking and partial burning by Tilly's forces in 1641 during the Thirty Years' War. Municipal small silver issues of this type were struck to address chronic shortages of petty coinage in the region, a problem that afflicted dozens of Lower Saxon towns simultaneously and prompted a wave of local emergency issues across 1668–69.