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Copper Pfenning - Æ 20 mm - 3 grams - Flipside same way up - Struck in 1761. |
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1 LEICHTER PFENNING 1761 (Leichter Pfenning - Light Pfenning).
Round Shield almost filling the coin with in it the text and minting date ending with a dot. Under this a fancy curl. Coin rim is dotted.
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No text.
Round Shield almost filling the coin. In it a lion standing, facing and clawing
to the left. Its double curling tail at its right. Through the whole shield a ‘bastard’ stripe from
upper left to lower right. The rim of the coin is dotted. |
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| A ‘leichter’ pfennig is the fourth of a Kreutzer. Three of them make two ‘schwere’ or ‘gute’
pfennige. The same coin is known in 1740’s and 1750’s but then with the Madonna Radiate.
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