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1 Doppelschilling
| Issuer | City of Brunswick (German States) |
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| Year | 1677 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Four-line inscription within a beaded inner circle reading XVI / RECH / TALE / [date], denoting the coin's value as one-sixteenth of a Reichsthaler. The surrounding outer legend MONETA.NOVA.ARGENTEA encircles the beaded border, with the date 1677 incorporated into the central inscription. The lettering is bold and upright in the style typical of late seventeenth-century north German minting. |
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| Reverse lettering | MONETA.NOVA.ARGENTEA· ·XVI· REICH TALE 1677. |
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Brunswick's civic coinage of the 1670s was struck under constant pressure from the surrounding Duchy, which repeatedly attempted to absorb the city's minting rights into ducal control. The city jealously guarded those rights as a marker of its imperial free status, producing issues like this one as much for political assertion as for commercial circulation.
Jesse Braun's reference remains the essential catalog for Brunswick civic types — his die studies identified significant variation within the Doppelschilling series of this decade.