2 Pfennig - Frederick III

Frederick III ruled Brandenburg-Prussia from 1688 until his self-coronation as King Frederick I of Prussia in 1701 — an act he orchestrated without Habsburg authorization by exploiting the Emperor's need for Prussian troops during the War of the Spanish Succession negotiations. These small silver pfennig issues of the 1690s belong to the decade-long campaign to build the financial and symbolic infrastructure of a kingdom-in-waiting.

The Schrötterkatalog 719 attribution places this among the minor coinage series struck at multiple Brandenburg mints during this period, where die consistency was rarely enforced at this denomination.