4 Pfennige - Charles August Frederick

Waldeck-Pyrmont in 1761 was under the rule of Charles August Frederick, a prince who spent much of his reign navigating the financial pressures of the Seven Years' War — a conflict that drained small German territories through imperial obligations and troop levies even when they weren't direct combatants. Small copper issues like this 4 Pfennige were the economic workhorses of such principalities, filling the gap left by silver coinage that was routinely hoarded or melted when war made hard money scarce.