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4 Pfenning - Victor II Frederick
| Issuer | Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg (Anhalt-Bernburg, German States) |
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| Year | 1744-1745 |
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| Value | 4 Pfennigs (4 Pfennige) (1⁄72) |
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| Obverse lettering | VF |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Anhalt-Bernburg was among the smallest and most financially constrained of the German principalities, and its billon coinage of the 1740s reflects that chronic fiscal pressure. Victor II Frederick ruled a territory perpetually overshadowed by its neighbors, and the two-year window of this issue likely corresponded to a specific minting contract or local fiscal need rather than any sustained production program. Billon at this weight and size was the workhorse of petty commerce in the fragmented Reich — depreciating, widely mistrusted, and endlessly reissued.