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1 Pfennig - Ernest I, Rudolph IV and Wolfgang
| Issuer | Principality of Anhalt (German States) |
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| Year | 1508-1509 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | A |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, as is typical of this denomination and period within the Anhalt coinage tradition. The planchet surface shows the characteristic irregular hammered texture with no intentional design elements, legends, or devices struck. This plain reverse is consistent with the bracteate-influenced pfennig coinage practice of the early sixteenth-century German states, where the obverse die impression may produce a faint incuse ghost image on the reverse due to the thinness of the flan. |
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Ernest I, Rudolph IV, and Wolfgang ruled Anhalt jointly following the territorial consolidation of the principality's divided lines — a recurring feature of small German dynastic politics where partition and reunion happened within single generations. This pfennig falls within a two-year window that preceded further fragmentation of the Anhalt territories, making joint-issue coinage of this type inherently short-lived by political design rather than minting accident.
The Mann#27 reference places it firmly in the specialized literature on Anhalt bracteate and small silver coinage, a collecting area thin enough that even minor die variations remain incompletely catalogued.