1 Pfennig - John Reinhard I

John Reinhard I ruled Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1599 until his death in 1625, presiding over a county straddling the Rhine between Alsace and the Main valley — territory that would be devastated within years of this coin's minting by the Thirty Years' War. At 0.24g, this is essentially a Heller-weight piece in silver, the smallest practical denomination the county produced, intended for daily market transactions among a population that rarely handled anything larger.

E&L#103 places it firmly within the Kipper und Wipper period's prologue, just before currency debasement across the German states made small silver coins like this effectively worthless by the early 1620s.