1 Pfennig - William I

Schaumburg-Hessen was one of the smallest and most administratively peculiar territories in the German states — a detached exclave of Electoral Hesse with no contiguous border with its parent state. Coinage authority persisted here largely by bureaucratic inertia after the Napoleonic reorganization, even as the Congress of Vienna debates in 1814–15 left its long-term status unresolved. William I of Electoral Hesse resumed issuing provincial coinage for Schaumburg almost immediately upon restoration, this pfennig among the first products of that reassertion.