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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 description | Two adjacent heraldic shields suspended from a looped hanger, displayed side by side in the center of the field. The left shield bears the two-fold arms of Anhalt, while the right shield displays the Aschersleben arms. A mintmark appears below the shields. The design is rendered in the primitive hammered style typical of early sixteenth-century German Pfennig coinage, with broad, irregular flan and shallow relief. |
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| Obverse lettering | O |
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Anhalt in 1508 was still a fragmented entity — Ernest I, Rudolph IV, and Wolfgang ruled jointly under the partition arrangements that had divided the principality among the Ascanian line for generations. Joint-name coinage of this kind was a political instrument as much as an economic one, asserting collective dynastic legitimacy over territories that functioned, in practice, as separate administrations. The arrangement collapsed shortly after: Rudolph IV died in 1510 without male heirs, and the territorial calculus shifted again.
Mann#31 is a scarce attribution. Very few examples surface at auction.