2 Pfenning - Charles I

Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel's small copper coinage of the 1770s was issued under Charles I, who ruled the principality for over half a century and spent much of that time navigating the financial pressures of maintaining an independent court while leasing troops — most notoriously to Britain during the American Revolutionary War. The pfennig denominations were workhorses of local market exchange, circulating hard in a territory whose economy ran largely on agriculture and ducal military contracts.

Welter 2781 is a relatively straightforward late-reign copper type, distinguished primarily by its place in the long sequence of Charles's issues rather than any particular minting anomaly.