4 Pfenning - Christian Frederick Charles Alexander

Christian Frederick Charles Alexander ruled Brandenburg-Ansbach from 1757 until his remarkable abdication in 1791, when he sold the entire margraviate to Prussia — the last Hohenzollern ruler to govern it as an independent territory. These small billon pieces circulated through the final decades of that autonomous existence, a principality already renting its own subjects as soldiers to the British during the American Revolutionary War.