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1/2 Ducat - Louis Rudolph
| Issuer | Brunswick-Blankenburg, Principality of |
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| Year | 1718-1728 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | LR |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Louis Rudolph ruled Brunswick-Blankenburg as the smallest and least prosperous of the Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel cadet territories, a principality so financially constrained that gold coinage from his reign is genuinely scarce by any measure. He became Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in 1731 after the main line failed, but these half ducats belong entirely to his Blankenburg years. Welter 2444 is known in very few examples across institutional and private collections.