8 Pfennig

Coesfeld's copper pfennig issues of this period circulated during a stretch that included the Thirty Years' War, which devastated Westphalian towns through the 1620s and 1630s and created chronic shortages of small-denomination coinage across the region. Municipal authorities across the Holy Roman Empire frequently filled that gap with locally-struck copper, often with little imperial oversight. The century-plus date range on KM#9 suggests either a very long production run with minimal design change or retroactive cataloging of pieces struck across multiple municipal administrations.