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6 Pfennig - Philip Julius III

Issuer Pomerania-Wolgast, Duchy of
Year 1622
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Reverse description Five-line central inscription reading the denomination and issuing territory, arranged across the field without an inner circle, with the date appearing on the lowest line. The bold, raised lettering is characteristic of the struck copper small coinage of the Duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast during the Kipper und Wipper inflationary period. Dot stops separate the lines of text.
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Reverse lettering .VI. / .PFEN / NING. / .POM(E). / .16ZZ.
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Philip Julius died in February 1625, leaving Pomerania-Wolgast without a direct heir and triggering the absorption of his duchy into Pomerania-Stettin under Duke Bogislaw XIV. This 1622 copper issue falls squarely within the Kipper und Wipper crisis — the speculative debasement frenzy that swept the Holy Roman Empire between roughly 1619 and 1623, during which mints large and small flooded circulation with overvalued copper and debased silver. Small duchies like Wolgast exploited the chaos aggressively before imperial pressure forced revaluation.

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