2 Pfennige - George V

Hannover's copper small change of the 1850s circulated under a king who never set foot in his German kingdom — George V ruled from Hanover city but was effectively managing a state that Prussia was already treating as a future annexation. That annexation came in 1866, when Bismarck dissolved the Kingdom of Hannover entirely following the Austro-Prussian War, abruptly ending a coinage tradition that had run unbroken for centuries. KM#217 pieces that survived into the 1870s would have been demonetized with the introduction of the unified German Reichsmark.