6 Pfennigs

Münster's civic coinage of this period operated under persistent tension with the Prince-Bishopric, whose authorities repeatedly contested the city's right to strike independent issues. Small copper pfennig denominations were tolerated largely because episcopal mints had little interest in the unglamorous business of petty coinage — leaving the city council to fill the gap for local market transactions. By 1560, Münster had been rebuilding civic normalcy for over two decades following the catastrophic Anabaptist Kingdom, which ended in 1535 with the torture and execution of its leaders and left the city's institutions severely disrupted.