1 Guter Pfennig - Frederick II

Schaumburg-Hessen was a tiny landgraviate whose ruling line expired in 1760 with the death of Friedrich I, after which the territory passed to Hesse-Kassel as a provincial administration. This coin dates from that administered period under Landgraf Friedrich II of Hesse-Kassel, who was simultaneously renting tens of thousands of his subjects as soldiers to the British crown for service in the American Revolutionary War — a transaction that funded much of the region's coinage and infrastructure while depopulating its villages.