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1 Pfennig - Frederick William
| Issuer | State of Brandenburg-Prussia (German States) |
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| Year | 1676-1679 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Brandenburg-Prussia's pfennig coinage of the 1670s falls squarely within Frederick William's aggressive monetary reforms, driven partly by the fiscal demands of his standing army — the Brandenburger Heer he was building into a permanent professional force rather than a seasonal levy. The Great Elector needed reliable small denomination coinage circulating in quantity, and the tiny silver pfennig served that logistical reality.
KM#462 is one of several pfennig types attributed to this narrow window; die attribution across the Brandenburg mints of this period remains imprecise, with Minden and Königsberg both producing closely related types.