4 Pfennig - George III

Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg-Hannover occupied a peculiar constitutional position throughout this period: its ruler was simultaneously King of Great Britain, yet the Electorate remained a separate entity under the Holy Roman Empire until that structure dissolved in 1806. Small billon coins like this one circulated in a territory administered largely by a monarch who rarely set foot there — George III never visited Hanover after acceding to the British throne in 1760.