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11/2 Pfennig - Charles I
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1747-1767 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1499-1814) |
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| Obverse lettering | CAROLVS D.G.DVX BRVNSVIC.ET LVNEB |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears a five-line inscription in the central field, stating the denomination and coin type in German. The text reads 1 1/2 / PFENNING / SCHEIDE / MUNTZ. followed by the date of issue at the base. The lettering is set in a plain, unadorned typographic style characteristic of mid-18th-century German copper coinage, with a reeded border visible at the coin's rim. |
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Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel's copper pfennig issues of the mid-eighteenth century were produced under Charles I, who ruled the principality from 1735 until his death in 1780 and spent much of his reign navigating the financial pressures imposed by the Seven Years' War. The small copper denominations bore the administrative burden of everyday commerce in a territory whose silver coinage was perpetually strained by military expenditure and dynastic obligation.
KM#925 spans a twenty-year production window, suggesting continuous re-striking rather than a single campaign — common practice among the smaller German states where dies were reused until failure.