4 Pfenning - Victor II Frederick

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.