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4 Pfennig
| Issuer | Osnabrück, City of |
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| Year | 1599 |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the Osnabrück civic arms — a six-spoked wheel — set within a plain circular border, surmounted by a small crown. The circular Latin legend STADT. OSNABRVGK. runs around the periphery, with the date 1599 incorporated at the conclusion of the inscription. The design is rendered in a simple, flat relief characteristic of late 16th-century German municipal copper coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1599 - - 1599 CD - - |
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Osnabrück's copper small-denomination coinage of the late sixteenth century emerged from a city perpetually caught between its Catholic bishop and its increasingly Lutheran civic administration. By 1599, that tension was sharpening toward what would eventually require resolution at the Peace of Westphalia — signed in Osnabrück itself in 1648. The city's right to strike its own copper pfennig coinage was a jealously maintained civic privilege, separate from the episcopal mint authority.
Kennepohl's cataloguing of this type identified distinct die variations across the 1590s issues.