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Weiss-Pfennig - Ferdinand I
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1526-1532 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄210) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1526-1532) - FERDINAND PRI - ND (1526-1532) - FERDINAND PRIM - ND (1526-1532) - FERDINAND PRIMV - ND (1526-1532) - FERDINANDVS PRIMV - ND (1526-1532) - FERDINANDVS PRIMVS - |
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Ferdinand I inherited Bohemia in 1526 following the death of Louis II at the Battle of Mohács, where the Hungarian-Bohemian king drowned retreating from the Ottomans. Ferdinand's immediate problem was not military but fiscal — he needed to establish coinage authority over a kingdom he had just acquired by dynastic right, not conquest. The Weiss-Pfennig was among the first issues struck under his Bohemian authority, part of a deliberate effort to assert Habsburg monetary control over the kingdom's fragmented regional minting system.