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4 Pfennig
| Issuer | Münster, Cathedral chapter of |
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| Year | 1661-1699 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Full-length facing figure of St. Paul standing at center, robed and haloed, holding a sword upright in his right hand and a book in his left, with the initials S·P flanking the figure at mid-field. The circular Latin legend surrounds the periphery, reading MON CATH ECCL MONA, denoting the Monastic Cathedral Chapter of Münster. The design is rendered in a bold, provincial Baroque style characteristic of mid-17th-century German ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | MON CATH ECCL MONA |
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The Cathedral Chapter of Münster operated as an independent ecclesiastical issuing authority throughout the seventeenth century, a privilege that survived even the upheavals of the Thirty Years' War. Chapter coinage of this period frequently circulated alongside — and in competition with — municipal issues from the city itself, creating persistent confusion that civic authorities repeatedly but unsuccessfully tried to resolve through ordinance.
The thirty-eight year span of this type reflects either a long-lived die or deliberate administrative inertia — chapter mints had little incentive to update undated or broadly dated copper fractions.