1 Pfennig - Joachim I Nestor

Joachim I ruled Brandenburg from 1499 until his death in 1535, spending much of his reign in bitter conflict with the Hohenzollern's creditors and the encroaching influence of Lutheran reform — which he resisted fiercely, even as his own wife, Elizabeth of Denmark, converted and fled to Saxony in 1528. These small silver pfennigs were the everyday transaction coin of the Margraviate, struck across that entire span with minimal design variation, making precise dating within the series nearly impossible without die study. Bahrf. 74 covers the type broadly rather than by emission year.