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1⁄16 Thaler
| Issuer | Brunswick, City of |
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| Year | 1675-1676 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Duke Rudolf August facing right, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend reads partially visible abbreviated titulature, with the duke depicted with long curled hair in the baroque style typical of the late 17th century. The portrait is rendered in moderate relief with fine detail in the hair and drapery. The legend runs along the outer rim of the coin, separated from the bust by the beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Brunswick's 1/16 thaler issues of 1675–76 fall squarely within the chaos following the Thirty Years' War, when the city retained its own minting rights despite the growing consolidation of coinage authority by the surrounding Duchy. The city and the ducal house maintained an uneasy jurisdictional overlap in monetary matters for decades, and small fractional silver of this type was the practical currency of everyday commerce — market stalls, toll payments, minor debts — in a region still recovering from wartime population collapse and trade disruption.