4 Pfennig

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.