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1 Pfennig - Christian I, August, Rudolph, Louis and John Casimir
| Issuer | Principality of Anhalt (German States) |
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| Year | 1621-1622 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄252) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued during the Kipper- und Wipperzeit — the catastrophic currency debasement crisis that swept the Holy Roman Empire between roughly 1619 and 1623 — this small copper piece reflects the monetary chaos that accompanied the opening years of the Thirty Years' War. Anhalt, already devastated by the post-White Mountain fallout that stripped the Calvinist princes of their electoral dignity, was among dozens of minor states flooding circulation with debased small coinage. The five co-ruling princes named on this issue governed a territory fractured by inheritance law into near-incoherence.