1 Pfennig - George

Mecklenburg-Strelitz was among the smallest and most financially marginal of the German states, and its copper pfennig issues of the 1830s reflect a mint operation that could barely justify its own existence. The state relied heavily on the Schwerin facilities of neighboring Mecklenburg-Schwerin for much of its actual striking capacity. George, who ruled from 1816 until his death in 1860, presided over a duchy so diminutive that its coinage program was correspondingly sparse — the 1838 pfennig is one of relatively few issues attributable to his reign.