1655 AD., German States, Margraviate of Brandenburg, County of Ravensberg, Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, 12 Pfennig countermarked, Stange 246.

German States, Margraviate of Brandenburg, County of Ravensberg (German: Grafschaft Ravensberg), Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg, 1640-1688, in Ravensberg since 1647), dated 1655 AD.,
12 Pfennig (ø 23-24 mm / 1,95 g), copper, axes coin alignment ↑↓ (180°), obverse countermark penetrating the coin three times, flan crack by countermark,
Obv.: :RAVENSB. LANT [MVNTZ / 16 -55 , electoral hat on scepter dividing date, in left field: countermark Ravensberg shield of arms, flan crack at 6 - mit dem Kurhut überhöhtes Kurzepter, im Feld stehend 16 -55.
Rev.: XII , Roman value numeral in a linear square, within 8 ornaments, flan crack at 11-12 - die Wertzahl XII in einem einfachen Linienrechteck, an den Kanten und Ecken insgesamt 8 akanthusblattförmige Ornamente, an den Schmalseiten zudem mit Punkten zwischen den Akanthusornamenten, mit Gegenstempel: Sparrenschild im linken Feld.
Stange 246 ; Weingärtner 911 var. ; v. Schrötter - (cf. 2062, 2063) .

The County of Ravensberg (German: Grafschaft Ravensberg) was a historical county of the Holy Roman Empire. Its territory was in present-day eastern Westphalia, Germany at the foot of the Teutoburg Forest (formerly called Osning).

Ravensberg was first mentioned in the 12th century; its first capital was Burg Ravensberg. The Counts of Ravensberg then had Sparrenberg Castle built in Bielefeld ca. 1240–50, which they made their seat.
The county was later inherited by the Duchy of Berg in 1346, which in turn became part of the Duchy of Jülich-Berg in 1423, and ultimately the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg in 1521.

After the War of the Jülich succession, in the Treaty of Xanten in 1614, the County of Ravensberg came to the Margraviate of Brandenburg, which became the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, and was administered within Minden-Ravensberg from 1719–1807, when it was dissolved during the Napoleonic Wars.

Aside from Bielefeld, other communities in the County of Ravensberg were Borgholzhausen, Halle, Steinhagen, Versmold, Werther, Isselhorst (now part of Gütersloh), Enger, Hiddenhausen, Rödinghausen, Spenge, Herford (except for Falkendiek), Bünde (except for Dünne and Spradow), Vlotho (except for Uffeln), Kirchlengern south of the Werre, Preußisch Oldendorf (except for Hedem and Lashorst) and Bad Oeynhausen south of the Werre.