1 Pfennig

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.