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1 Pfennig - Günther Frederick Charles II
| Issuer | Schwarzburg-Sondershausen |
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| Year | 1846-1858 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the crowned arms of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, featuring a shield bearing an eagle displayed, surmounted by a princely crown. The shield is rendered in fine relief with detailed heraldic engraving. A beaded border frames the entire design. The curved legend reads FÜRSTENTH. SCHWARZB. SOND. distributed around the periphery in Latin script. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was one of the smallest sovereign territories in the German Confederation, covering barely 862 square kilometers with a population that never exceeded 70,000. Günther Friedrich Karl II ruled for an exceptionally long stretch — from 1835 until the principality's absorption into the North German Confederation in 1867 — and his copper pfennig issues circulated in a state whose economic output was so modest that coinage was produced in quantities reflecting a market town rather than a sovereign nation.
KM#142 spans twelve years of production, suggesting periodic restrikes rather than continuous minting pressure.