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1 Pfennig - Balthasar II, Günther XXXIX and Henry XXXI
| Issuer | Schwarzburg, County of |
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| Year | 1520-1521 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#2, Fischer Sc#62, Bethe#241 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely blank, with no design, legend, or inscription, consistent with standard practice for small-denomination hammered Pfennig coinage of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Schwarzburg's joint coinages under co-ruling counts were a persistent feature of the dynasty's fragmented governance, and this pfennig reflects the brief administrative overlap between Balthasar II, Günther XXXIX, and Heinrich XXXI during the early 1520s — a period when the county was also absorbing the first shockwaves of Lutheran reform spreading outward from Wittenberg, barely 150 kilometers to the northeast. At 0.26 grams of silver, these were working coins, and surviving examples in any meaningful state of preservation are genuinely scarce.