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1 Pfennig - Adolphus
| Issuer | Nassau-Holzappel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1653-1676 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Crowned shield bearing the Nassau lion passant, flanked by two crabapple branches, all within a beaded inner circle. The design is crudely struck in the hammered tradition typical of small German territorial pfennigs of the mid-seventeenth century. No legend is present in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (1653-1676) |
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Nassau-Holzappel was among the smallest and most obscure of the Rhenish territories, elevated to a principality only in 1650 when Philipp von Nassau-Holzappel received the title from Emperor Ferdinand III — largely in recognition of his military service during the Thirty Years' War. Adolphus, who succeeded him, ruled a territory of negligible economic weight, which makes even routine copper-billon issues from this mint exceptionally scarce today.
KM#1 suggests this is the foundational coinage type of the principality itself.