The County of Fürstenberg occupied a fragmented territorial patchwork in the Upper Rhine and Black Forest regions, and its coinage rights were exercised sporadically — often as much to assert jurisdictional independence as to meet genuine monetary demand. At 0.28g, this silver Pfennig represents the smallest practical unit the county produced, likely intended for local market transactions where petty silver still circulated alongside the billon issues of larger neighbors.
The County of Fürstenberg occupied a fragmented territorial patchwork in the Upper Rhine and Black Forest regions, and its coinage rights were exercised sporadically — often as much to assert jurisdictional independence as to meet genuine monetary demand. At 0.28g, this silver Pfennig represents the smallest practical unit the county produced, likely intended for local market transactions where petty silver still circulated alongside the billon issues of larger neighbors.