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3 Pfenninge - Frederick Günther
| Issuer | Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
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| Year | 1842 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Four-line inscription in the field reading SCHEIDE MÜNZE across the top, followed by the denomination 3 PFENNINGE, the date 1842, and the Berlin mint mark A at the base. The text is arranged centrally within a plain field, with no additional decorative elements. |
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Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was one of the smallest and most financially marginal principalities in the German Confederation, covering barely 940 square kilometers and relying heavily on Prussian economic arrangements. Frederick Günther reigned from 1807 to 1867 — an extraordinarily long tenure that spanned Napoleonic reorganization, the 1848 revolutions, and early German unification pressures. Small copper pfennig denominations like this one were largely a local convenience; by the early 1840s, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt had already joined the Prussian customs union, meaning its higher-value trade coinage was increasingly redundant.
The principality struck its last independent coinage in 1867, the same year Frederick Günther died.