1 Weißpfennig - Frederick IV

Frederick IV ruled Moers during a period when the Lower Rhine was saturated with small silver Weißpfennig issues from competing territorial lords, each minting aggressively to assert fiscal control over local trade routes. The County of Moers, though modest in size, held a strategically awkward position between the Archbishop of Cologne and the Duke of Cleves — both of whom ran their own parallel coinages and weren't above refusing neighboring issues at market.

Noss Be#23 is a rare attribution for this type. Alfred Noss's work on Lower Rhine coinage remains the definitive reference, and pieces catalogued within his Moers sequence are infrequently encountered in trade.