1 Pfennig - George III

Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg-Hannover was one of the more administratively tangled of the German states, and George III ruled it as Elector — never setting foot there once during his reign. The Hanoverian coinage of this period was managed entirely through local ministers, producing issues that circulated in a territory the titular ruler knew only through correspondence. The Calenberg line's copper pfennig was struck across more than two decades with little variation, which partly explains the wide date range and the difficulty in attributing individual pieces precisely within it.