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2 Pfennig - Charles
| Issuer | Hesse-Cassel |
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| Year | 1680 |
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| Value | 2 Pfennigs (2 Pfennige) (1⁄144) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the Schaumburg arms — a nettle-leaf shield — set within an oval cartouche surrounded by an elaborate baroque foliate frame surmounted by a crown. The date 1680 is divided into two pairs of numerals and placed at the left and right sides of the frame within the field, flanking the central device. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1680 |
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Hesse-Cassel's minor coinage of the 1680s was produced under Landgrave Charles, who came to power in 1670 and spent much of his reign reorganizing the landgraviate's finances after the devastation of the Thirty Years' War had hollowed out both population and treasury. A 2 Pfennig piece in silver at this weight sits at the extreme low end of the denomination hierarchy — functionally a scratch coin, produced in quantity and expected to disappear quickly into everyday transactions.
KM#29 is sparsely documented in auction records, which likely reflects attrition rather than low original mintage.