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4 Pfennig
| Issuer | Hamelin, City of |
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| Year | 1668-1672 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#72, Kalv/Schr#257 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a bold three-line inscription centered in the field, reading IIII / GUTE. / PF., denoting the denomination of four good Pfennig. The lettering is rendered in a plain, functional style typical of small German civic silver issues, with no additional decorative elements. The legends fill the flan, with minimal remaining field visible. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hamelin's municipal coinage of this period operated under a privilege that most Lower Saxon towns had quietly abandoned by mid-century. The city continued striking its own silver fractions well into the 1670s partly because the Thirty Years' War had so thoroughly disrupted regional monetary networks that local issues remained practically necessary decades after Westphalia. Small denominations in particular filled gaps that the larger territorial coinages of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Calenberg-Grubenhagen never reliably covered at the retail level.
At 1 gram in silver, these circulated hard and wore fast.