ID help on a German coin please...

elverno · June 8, 2005 2:18AM

The dealer flip said it was from Schaumburg-Hessen but 1 don't have anything listed for that in any of my references. Also my wife seems to have cleaned up my old Krause so well that I can't find it! I told her it was impossible to lose something that big...

1796 Schaumburg-Hessen(?), 1 Guter pfennig

CIVITAS · June 8, 2005 2:22AM

The dealer is correct.

C#3 1796 Pfennig

F/VF/XF/UNC 5/10/25/75

elverno · June 8, 2005 2:32AM

Cool thanks. Any idea who the W. L. is?

CIVITAS · June 8, 2005 3:02AM

I imagine the 'WL' stands for Wilhelm somehow. The earlier pfennig had an 'FL' monogram up to 1785 when Friedrich II died and Wilhelm took over. Both were from Hesse-Cassel. I don't know how the L figures in......

ID help on a German coin please...

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