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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1754-1790 |
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| Currency | Konventionsthaler (1754-1807) |
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| Obverse lettering | S.1.₰ 17 86 ✤ ✤ (Translation: 1 Pfennig (₰ is special old symbol for Pfennig)) |
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| Mintage | 1754 - - 1755 - - 1756 - - 1757 - - 1758 - - 1759 - - 1760 - - 1761 - - 1762 - - 1763 - - 1764 - - 1765 - - 1766 - - 1767 - - 1768 - - 1769 - - 1770 - - 1771 - - 1772 - - 1773 - - 1775 - - 1776 - - 1777 - - 1778 - - 1779 - - 1780 - - 1781 - - 1782 - - 1783 - - 1784 - - 1785 - - 1786 - - 1787 - - 1790 - - |
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Nuremberg's pfennig coinage in this period was authorized under the city's ancient imperial mint privilege, one of the few such rights still exercised by a free city in the fragmented monetary landscape of the late Holy Roman Empire. By the 1750s the city's finances were under serious strain — Nuremberg carried debts accumulated over generations of costly imperial politics — and these tiny silver pieces circulated alongside a chaotic mixture of territorial coinages that made everyday commerce a persistent arithmetic problem.
The city lost its independent status entirely in 1806 when Napoleon dissolved the Empire and Bavaria absorbed Nuremberg outright.