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CAMENZ: Free Imperial City, AE 3 pfennig, 1622, PCGS MS62 BN

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CAMENZ: Free Imperial City, AE 3 pfennig, 1622, PCGS MS62 BN
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CAMENZ: Free Imperial City, AE 3 pfennig, 1622, KM-3, a pleasing lustrous chocolate brown mint state example, PCGS graded MS62 BN, ex Joe Sedillot Collection. The town of Camenz (Kamenz) is known as the birthplace of the philosopher and poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Bruno Hauptmann. Kamenz citizens officially turned Protestant in 1536. In the Schmalkaldic War of 1546/47, the Upper Lusatian towns refused to support the troops of the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand I against the Protestant princes and were penalised with the loss of numerous privileges. The Franciscan convent finally dissolved in 1564. With the 1635 Peace of Prague, the Lusatias passed from the Bohemian Crown to the Electorate of Saxony. Several witch-hunts are documented in the 17th century. In 1707 a fire destroyed large parts of the old town.