1 Pfennig - Günther XLII, Anton Heinrich, Johann Günther II and Cristian Günther I

Schwarzburg-Sondershausen's four-count joint rule was an administrative peculiarity of the Holy Roman Empire's inheritance laws, which routinely fractured territories among male heirs rather than consolidating them. This pfennig was struck during the Kipper- und Wipperzeit — the catastrophic currency debasement crisis of 1619–1623, when dozens of petty German states raced to mint debased coinage, collect seigniorage, and pass the losses downstream. Small copper issues like this one were part of that broader monetary chaos, even if copper itself was less susceptible to the silver manipulations driving the crisis.