6 Pfennig

The Cathedral Chapter of Münster operated as an autonomous ecclesiastical authority with the right to strike its own coinage — a privilege that often put it in friction with the secular civic authorities of Münster itself. By the 1580s, the chapter was issuing small copper pfennig denominations primarily to address a shortage of petty coinage in the region, a recurring problem across the fragmented territorial structure of Westphalia. Copper issues of this type circulated hard and were discarded freely, which accounts for the near-total absence of high-grade survivors catalogued under Weingärtner's Westphalian series.