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1 Denier, 1 Pfennig - Ferdinand Charles Type 2
| Issuer | Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort |
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| Year | 1649 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1611-1803) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Ferdinand Charles facing right, rendered in low relief in a crude provincial style characteristic of small German states. The effigy displays curled hair falling to the shoulder and a lace collar visible below the neck truncation. The portrait is surrounded by a beaded inner circle. The abbreviated Latin legend of the ruler's titles runs along the outer field. |
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| Reverse lettering | + DENIER.DE.CVGNON.1649 (1) |
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Ferdinand Charles ruled Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort in the immediate aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, a conflict that had devastated the small Rhenish territories economically and demographically. The 1648 Peace of Westphalia, signed just a year before this piece was struck, formally reaffirmed the minting rights of minor imperial counts — rights many had been unable to exercise during decades of wartime disruption. This coin is a direct product of that restored authority.
The "Type 2" designation within CGKL#682 distinguishes this from an earlier die arrangement of the same year.