East Frisia's incorporation into Prussia in 1744 left Frederick II with a patchwork of local monetary obligations he was in no hurry to rationalize. The tiny billon fractionals continued under his name largely because suppressing them would have disrupted petty commerce in a province already skeptical of Hohenzollern administration. This piece dates to just six years before Prussia formally abolished the separate East Frisian coinage series entirely.
East Frisia's incorporation into Prussia in 1744 left Frederick II with a patchwork of local monetary obligations he was in no hurry to rationalize. The tiny billon fractionals continued under his name largely because suppressing them would have disrupted petty commerce in a province already skeptical of Hohenzollern administration. This piece dates to just six years before Prussia formally abolished the separate East Frisian coinage series entirely.