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6 Pfennig
| Issuer | Hamm, City of |
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| Year | 1635 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | HAM |
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| Reverse lettering | VI 1635 |
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Hamm's copper small change of 1635 was struck in the midst of the Thirty Years' War, when the lower Rhine-Westphalia region changed hands repeatedly between Imperial, Spanish, and Dutch-aligned forces. Municipal authorities across the region issued emergency copper coinage precisely because silver had been hoarded, melted, or requisitioned by passing armies. Hamm, a Westphalian town on the Lippe River, was no exception.
KM#45 is sparsely documented in the auction record, suggesting limited survival — unsurprising for a copper municipal issue struck under wartime conditions and intended purely for local petty transactions.