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1 Pfennig - George V
| Issuer | County of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (German States) |
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| Year | 1620-1622 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Reverse description | Plain, unadorned field with no discernible design, legend, or device, typical of the uniface or near-uniface character common to small-denomination hammered copper Pfennig coinage of early seventeenth-century German county mints. The surface shows the irregular flan characteristic of hand-cut copper planchets of this period, with natural flow lines and patination consistent with the hammering technique. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg exercised coinage rights as an imperial county during the early Thirty Years' War, a period when small copper pfennig issues proliferated across the fragmented German states partly to exploit the monetary chaos of the Kipper- und Wipperzeit — the currency debasement crisis of roughly 1619–1623 in which hundreds of minor authorities clipped, debased, and overissued coinage at ruinous rates. George V ruled the county from 1607 until his death in 1631. At 0.18 g, this piece represents the absolute floor of practical coinage.