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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 4543764, member: 102103&quot;]Day 75:&nbsp; From Hamburg to Hamm</p><p><br /></p><p>Hamm City, 3 Pfenninge, 1719</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t believe that Hamm was a free city, but it did issue its own coinage.&nbsp; The </p><p>ruling line died out in the 1600s and Hamm was absorbed by Brandenburg-Prussia. </p><p>It continued making local copper coinage until 1749.&nbsp; I believe Hamm only minted 3 pfenninge coins in the 1700s, though there may have been more variety earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>This particular coin has a distinctly oval shape.&nbsp; It looks like a grape.&nbsp; The one on </p><p><a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces9462.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces9462.html" rel="nofollow">Numista</a> and in my coin catalog are more circular.&nbsp; The coin doesn&#039;t look like it has </p><p>been stretched out after manufacture, and the border dots track the shape fairly </p><p>well.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure if this was meant to be oblong or just had an oddly-shaped </p><p>copper blank before minting.&nbsp; It also has a hole, which is odd, as copper coins were</p><p>not usually made into jewelry.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1124964[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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