1 Pfennig - Eberhard IV of Eppstein-Königstein

The County of Königstein passed to the Eppstein family in the late fifteenth century and was absorbed by the County of Hanau following Eberhard IV's death without male heirs in 1535. This pfennig belongs to the final decade of independent Königstein coinage — a small territory issuing small silver in a period when territorial fragmentation across the Rhineland-Main region meant dozens of minor lords still exercised mint rights, however briefly.