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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Drossen, City of |
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| Year | 1622 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Plain blank reverse, unadorned and without any design, lettering, or decorative elements, characteristic of small-denomination hammered pfennig coinage of the period. |
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Drossen — now Ośno Lubuskie in western Poland — was among dozens of small Brandenburg towns that issued emergency copper coinage during the catastrophic monetary collapse of the Kipper- und Wipperzeit, roughly 1619–1623. Municipalities, nobles, and minor lordships debased and clipped silver so aggressively that small copper pfennigs from local authorities became the only reliable low-denomination currency left in circulation. At 0.19 grams, this piece was barely a coin by any mechanical standard — a token of last resort issued by a town that had little choice.