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| 正面描述 | Facing enthroned figure of Saint Paul depicted in hieratic style, rendered in Gothic tradition, with the small arms of Münster positioned below the figure in the lower field. The legend, inscribed in Gothic lettering, surrounds the central device and identifies the apostle. The overall composition reflects the ecclesiastical character of the issuing chapter. |
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| 正面铭文 | S. PAVLVS. A - POSTOLVS. |
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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.