1 Pfennig - Charles I

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.