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1 Pfennig - Frederick Ⅱ
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Franconia |
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| Year | 1495-1515 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄12) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (1495-1515) |
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Brandenburg-Franconia's pfennig coinage of this period emerged directly from the Franconian Circle's attempts to stabilize small-denomination silver circulation following the monetary fragmentation of the late fifteenth century. Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, governed a territory perpetually caught between the ambitions of the Hohenzollern dynasty and the realities of Franconian local commerce. Coins of this type circulated through Ansbach and Bayreuth market networks, where their tiny silver content made them among the most debased practical units in everyday exchange.
Schrötter 430 distinguishes this type within a crowded field of near-identical regional pfennigs — attribution without that reference is genuinely difficult.