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4 Pfenninge - Frederick William III
| Issuer | Prussia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1821-1840 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The Prussian royal arms are displayed at center: a shield bearing the black Hohenzollern eagle with scepter and orb, surmounted by an elaborate royal crown with cross finial. The circular legend '90 EINEN THALER' runs along the periphery, indicating the coin's fractional denomination relative to the Thaler. The heraldic composition is rendered in a neoclassical style consistent with early nineteenth-century German coinage. |
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| Edge | Raised circles |
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Frederick William III's monetary reforms of the early 1820s rationalized Prussia's chaotic post-Napoleonic coinage, and these copper pfennige were among the workhorses of that new system. The Prussian mint at Berlin struck the bulk of the issue, though production was distributed across several facilities as the kingdom absorbed former Napoleonic territories and their minting infrastructure into a unified currency framework.
The long production run across nearly two decades accounts for the substantial die variety documentation — Schramm alone catalogues over thirty distinct varieties within this type.