11/2 Pfennig - Charles I

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.