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1 Pfennig - David and Frederick Christopher
| Issuer | County of Mansfeld-Hinterort (German States) |
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| Year | 1621 |
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| Weight | 0.33 g |
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| Obverse lettering | 1621 |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 PFENNING |
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Issued during the opening years of the Thirty Years' War, this tiny copper piece was struck under the joint rule of David and Frederick Christopher of the Mansfeld-Hinterort line — a cadet branch of a family already fracturing under debt and dynastic subdivision. The Mansfeld counts had overextended themselves financing military ventures, and Ernst von Mansfeld, their kinsman, was actively raising Protestant mercenary armies across the empire at precisely this moment. Emergency copper pfennig issues like this one were common responses to silver shortages driven by wartime hoarding and monetary chaos across the German territories in 1621.