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1⁄24 Thaler - Elisabeth Juliane Death
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1704 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Duchess Elisabeth Juliane facing right, her hair arranged in elaborate curls and dressed in the fashion of the late Baroque period. A circular Latin legend surrounds the portrait, giving her abbreviated titles as Duchess of Brunswick and Lüneburg and Consort Princess of Holstein. The denomination numeral 24 appears in the lower field beneath the bust. The coin exhibits a fine milled border of raised denticles. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Elisabeth Juliane of Holstein-Norburg died in February 1704 after nearly four decades as consort to Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Memorial coinage for ducal consorts at this denomination was unusual — the 1/24 Thaler circulated among ordinary commerce, not just court ceremony — which suggests Anton Ulrich intended her commemoration to reach beyond the nobility. Anton Ulrich himself was a prolific patron of the arts and an amateur novelist of some repute, and his court at Wolfenbüttel was among the more culturally ambitious of the smaller German principalities.