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1 Pfennig - Eberhard III
| Issuer | Duchy of Württemberg (Württemberg, German States) |
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| Year | 1633-1674 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Plain, uniface strike; the reverse bears no design or inscription, displaying only the flat, irregular surface of the hammered flan consistent with the small Pfennig coinage practice of the Duchy of Württemberg during the seventeenth century. |
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| Mintage | ND (1633-1674) |
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Eberhard III inherited Württemberg in 1628, mid-Thirty Years' War, with Imperial and Swedish armies repeatedly occupying and plundering the duchy throughout his minority. By the time he assumed personal rule, the territory's economy had been gutted — plague, occupation, and requisitioned grain had reduced the population by roughly a third. Small silver pfennig issues like this one were struck under extraordinarily difficult fiscal conditions, with the duchy's minting operations intermittently disrupted by the war's shifting fronts well into the 1640s.