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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 4942522, member: 89314&quot;]Germany&nbsp; MÜHLHAUSEN in Thuringen&nbsp;&nbsp; 3 Pfennig&nbsp; 1757</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1188141[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1188142[/ATTACH]&nbsp;&nbsp; The above billon coin has a diameter of only 13 mm and a weight of 0.97 g - easily lost.&nbsp; Not surprisingly, the city authorities decided that the lower denomination 2 Pfennig would be impossibly tiny if struck in silver or even billon (although some other states did that) and opted for a larger city copper issue (24 mm, 4.44 g) instead&nbsp; However, they could still have chosen a more imaginative design.</p><p><br /></p><p>MÜHLHAUSEN in Thuringen&nbsp;&nbsp; 2 Pfennig&nbsp; 1757</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1188143[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1188144[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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