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1 Pfennig - Frederick Charles August
| Issuer | Waldeck-Pyrmont, Principality of |
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| Year | 1773-1799 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#20, Weing Westfalens#778 |
| Obverse description | Cursive royal cypher consisting of the initial 'F' for Friedrich (Frederick Charles August, Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont), rendered in an ornate calligraphic style and occupying the majority of the coin's field. The monogram is surmounted by a princely crown, depicted in outline with pellets along the arched band. No surrounding legend; the design is contained within a plain, unbordered field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Waldeck-Pyrmont occupied an awkward position in the late eighteenth-century German political order — nominally independent but perpetually cash-strapped, its treasury chronically reliant on the controversial practice of selling soldiers to foreign powers, most notoriously to Britain for service in the American Revolutionary War. Small copper issues like this pfennig kept local commerce functional during decades when the principality's human export trade generated more revenue than its entire domestic economy.