1 Pfennig - Wolfgang Frederick

Salm-Dhaun occupied a peculiar position in the fragmented sovereignty of the Holy Roman Empire — the Wildgraviate and Rhingraviate titles were ancient Rhenish offices whose territorial authority had been subdivided so many times through inheritance that by the early seventeenth century the counts exercised coinage rights over territories barely large enough to sustain them. Wolfgang Frederick's silver Pfennig, struck at under a quarter gram, sits at the extreme lower boundary of practical monetary production.