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1 Pfennig - William VII
| Issuer | Landgraviate of Hesse-Cassel (Hesse-Cassel) |
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| Year | 1665-1670 |
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| Reference(s) | Hoffmeistr#1429, |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1665 - - 1670 - - |
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William VII ruled Hesse-Cassel for only four years before dying in 1670 at age twenty-two, leaving no heir and triggering a succession dispute that briefly threatened the landgraviate's autonomy. Tiny silver pfennigs of this type — struck in the closing decades before copper displaced silver for the lowest denominations across most German states — were already an anachronism at the time of issue, clinging to a tradition that most neighboring mints had already abandoned.