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1 Pfennig - William VII
| Issuer | Hesse-Cassel |
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| Year | 1665 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄288) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the crowned Schaumburg arms shield, displaying a chequered (checky) pattern, set upon a radiating spray of crossed branches or antlers that extend symmetrically outward in all directions, creating a distinctive starburst or sun-ray effect around the central escutcheon. The entire design is contained within a plain inner circle bordered by a beaded or milled outer rim. No legend is present. The composition is rendered in a bold, low-relief hammered style characteristic of late 17th-century German petty coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1665: ND (1665) |
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Hesse-Cassel's mint output in the 1660s was shaped almost entirely by the economic wreckage left by the Thirty Years' War, which had ended just seventeen years prior. William VII ruled only briefly — he died in 1670 at twenty-one, having never fully exercised independent authority during his minority. A silver Pfennig of this weight was among the smallest denominations the mint produced, struck in a period when copper had not yet displaced silver at the lowest end of the coinage hierarchy in many German states.