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1 Pfennig - Louis V
| Issuer | Electors of the Palatinate (Palatinate, German States) |
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| Year | 1508-1544 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Uniface strike; the reverse is completely blank and unworked, bearing only the incuse impression left by the anvil die. This is consistent with standard practice for small-denomination hammered Pfennig coinage of the Palatinate in the early sixteenth century, where only a single working die was employed. |
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Louis V ruled the Palatinate from 1508 until his death in 1544, navigating the turbulent opening decades of the Reformation with deliberate caution — he remained Catholic while his territories pressed toward Lutheranism, a tension that shaped his administration without resolving it. Small silver pfennigs of this type circulated alongside the debased copper and billon issues flooding the Rhine region during the same period, making an unmixed silver specimen at this weight increasingly anomalous by the 1530s.