1 Pfennig - Frederick V

Frederick V ruled the Burgraviate of Nuremberg until 1398, when he died without male heirs and the territory passed to the Hohenzollern line — the same dynasty that would eventually rule Brandenburg-Prussia and, centuries later, the German Empire. These small silver pfennigs were struck during the administrative twilight of an independent burgraviate that effectively ceased to exist as a sovereign entity within a generation of this coinage.