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1 Pfennig - Louis Frederick II
| Issuer | Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
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| Year | 1801-1802 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1710-1868) |
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| Obverse description | Plain copper field bearing a two-line inscription in raised Latin characters arranged centrally within the coin's field, reading 'SCHWARZB RUD' on the upper line and 'LM' on the lower, identifying the issuing principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. The legends are rendered in a blocky, serif typeface typical of early nineteenth-century German coinage. The field shows no additional decorative elements, bordure, or effigy, consistent with the modest character of minor German state pfennig coinage of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was one of the smallest and most financially strained of the Thuringian principalities, and its copper pfennig issues of the early 1800s were struck largely out of administrative necessity rather than any monetary ambition. Louis Frederick II ruled a territory of roughly 75,000 subjects and an annual revenue that barely sustained the court at Rudolstadt. These fractional copper pieces circulated hard in local markets, and surviving examples in decent condition are genuinely scarce — not because mintages were low by design, but because worn-out copper from poor states rarely got saved.