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4 Pfennig - Henry LI
| Issuer | Reuss-Ebersdorf |
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| Year | 1812 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse lettering | .4. // PFENNIG // F.R.P. // EBERSDORF // L.M. |
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| Mintage | 1812 - - 23,000 |
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Reuss-Ebersdorf was among the smallest sovereign territories in the Holy Roman Empire's successor patchwork — a county of barely 25 square kilometers with a population that never exceeded a few thousand. By 1812, Napoleon had reorganized much of the German micro-states into the Confederation of the Rhine, and Ebersdorf's ruling house retained nominal sovereignty largely through calculated submission. Henry LI issued this copper largely to assert that the county still functioned as an independent monetary authority, however symbolically.
The county was absorbed into Reuss-Schleiz in 1848 upon extinction of the Ebersdorf line.