1 Pfennig

Nuremberg's status as a Free Imperial City was already largely ceremonial by the late 1780s — the city was deep in debt, its political autonomy increasingly nominal under Habsburg pressure, and its independent coinage output was winding down. The Holy Roman Empire would dissolve in 1806, and Nuremberg itself was absorbed into Bavaria in 1806 following Napoleonic reorganization of German territories. These tiny billon pfennigs from 1788–89 are among the final issues struck under the city's centuries-old minting authority.