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1 Pfennig - Louis V
| Issuer | Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt (Hesse-Darmstadt, German States) |
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| Year | 1621-1622 |
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| Weight | 0.15 g |
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| Reverse description | Plain or near-blank reverse, as is typical of uniface or semi-uniface Pfennig coinage of the Kipper und Wipper period, with only faint incuse impressions from the obverse die visible on the irregular billon flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (1621-1622) |
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Issued during the Kipper- und Wipperzeit — the catastrophic currency debasement crisis that swept the Holy Roman Empire between roughly 1619 and 1623 — this piece represents exactly the kind of degraded small change that flooded German markets as mints raced to profit from melting good coin and restruck debased replacements. Landgrave Louis V of Hesse-Darmstadt was among the many territorial rulers who participated, however reluctantly, in the race to the bottom. At 0.15 g, there was almost nothing left to debase.