1 Pfennig - August William

August Wilhelm ruled Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1714 until his death in 1731, a period when the smaller copper Pfennig denominations were struck primarily to address chronic shortages of petty coinage in the Lower Saxon territories. The principality maintained its own mint at Zellerfeld, which handled most copper production during this reign alongside the silver work at Brunswick itself.

Welter 2418 distinguishes this type within a crowded field of Brunswick minor coinage — the Wolfenbüttel line produced so many overlapping Pfennig types across successive rulers that attribution without reference numbers is genuinely unreliable.