1 Pfennig - Louis V

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.