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1 Pfennig - Charles I
| Issuer | Landgraviate of Hesse-Cassel (Province of Schaumburg-Hessen, Hesse-Cassel) |
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| Year | 1676-1677 |
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| Diameter | 12.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays a small quartered shield bearing the arms of Schaumburg-Hessen, flanked on four sides by elongated diagonal lines or ray-like ornamental strokes radiating outward from the shield, giving a cross-like heraldic composition. The flan is irregular and the design is characteristic of small hammered bracteate-style coinage of the period, with no surrounding legend. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Schaumburg-Hessen was a tiny exclave territory administered under Hesse-Cassel following the extinction of the Schaumburg comital line in 1640, and its coinage issues reflect the administrative awkwardness of that arrangement — struck in the name of the Landgrave but acknowledging the distinct jurisdictional status of the province. Charles I ruled Hesse-Cassel from 1670 until his death in 1730, and these pfennig issues from the mid-1670s fall early in his reign, before the financial strains of the Nine Years' War would complicate mintage across the smaller German territories.