Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Pfennig - Louis
| Issuer | County of Leiningen-Westerburg (German States) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1610-1615 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Leiningen-Westerburg was a tiny Rhenish county perpetually squeezed between larger territorial powers, and its copper pfennig coinage of the early seventeenth century reflects the patchwork monetary chaos that plagued the Holy Roman Empire before the Kipper- und Wipperzeit debased small denominations across the region wholesale. Louis I of Leiningen-Westerburg exercised minting rights that were, in practical terms, barely worth exercising — a 0.14g copper piece circulating among a few thousand subjects in a county that would spend much of the century fighting for its own survival.