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1 Doppelschilling
| Issuer | City of Brunswick (German States) |
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| Year | 1675-1676 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Draped bust of Duke Rudolf August of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel facing right, set within an inner beaded circle. The duke is portrayed wearing a cuirass and a flowing long-haired wig characteristic of the late seventeenth-century Baroque style. The surrounding circular legend reads RV:AVGVSTVS.HERZ·Z·B·V·L·, an abbreviation for Rudolf Augustus, Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg, in Latin script. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Brunswick's Doppelschilling issues of the mid-1670s were produced under chronic fiscal strain — the city had spent decades absorbing the economic wreckage of the Thirty Years' War and was struggling to maintain an independent municipal coinage against the encroaching monetary authority of the surrounding Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. The Jesse Braun reference places this firmly within the civic series rather than ducal production, a distinction that matters for attribution.
KM#65 spans two years, suggesting a production run tied to a specific short-term minting contract or bullion availability rather than continuous output.