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1 Pfenning - Charles William Ferdinand
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1780-1788 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#996 |
| Obverse description | The traditional heraldic wild man (Wilder Mann) of Brunswick stands facing, depicted full-length in the field, his body covered in foliage, holding an uprooted tree trunk upright in his right hand. The figure is rendered in low relief against a plain field, with a ground line at the base. The mintmaster's initial appears below the ground line in the exergue. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Charles William Ferdinand ruled Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel as hereditary prince under his father until 1780, then as reigning duke until his death in 1806 — but the administrative machinery that produced these small copper coins was largely inherited from his predecessor and ran with minimal intervention. The pfennig denominations of this period were struck primarily for local market transactions at a time when North German copper coinage was notoriously inconsistent in weight and fineness across neighboring principalities.
KM#996 spans eight years of issue, suggesting steady if unspectacular demand rather than a targeted recoinage event.