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4 Pfennig Domkapitel
| Issuer | Paderborn, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1617 |
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| Value | 4 Pfennigs (4 Pfennige) (1⁄72) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Large bold Roman numeral IIII occupying the central field, enclosed within a circle of pellets. The date legend is distributed around the periphery, with the year 1617 split across the field flanking the numeral. The design is stark and functional, typical of small-denomination chapter coinage of the period, with the date integrated into the circular legend reading . ANNO . 1617 . |
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Issued under the authority of the Paderborn cathedral chapter during the Thirty Years' War's opening year, this copper piece belongs to the wave of small-denomination emergency coinage that flooded the Westphalian region as silver fled circulation. The Kipper und Wipper crisis — a systematic debasement and currency manipulation that peaked between roughly 1619 and 1622 — was already building when this piece was struck, and copper pfennig issues from ecclesiastical mints like Paderborn's domkapitel were among the first casualties of that collapse in public trust.
The cathedral chapter operated with considerable minting autonomy, distinct from the bishop's own coinage — a jurisdictional nuance that the Schwede and Weingart Westfalens references document carefully for this type.