1 Pfennig - Alexius Frederick Christian

Anhalt-Bernburg was one of the smaller Anhalt succession states, and by 1807 its coinage was already an administrative curiosity — Napoleon's reorganization of German territories had rendered dozens of petty princely mints politically awkward. Alexius Frederick Christian continued issuing copper pfennig denominations through this period largely because discontinuing them would have required negotiating monetary arrangements with neighbors equally uncertain of their own futures.