1 Goldgulden - Henry the younger

Henry the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was, by 1558, one of the last Catholic princes still holding firm in a region that had turned decisively Lutheran. His long reign — he died in 1568 at roughly ninety years old — was marked by relentless conflict with the Schmalkaldic League, which twice drove him from his lands. This gulden was struck in the final decade of that reign, when his political position had stabilized but his duchy remained economically strained from decades of warfare and occupation.

Welter 384 is a scarce attribution; surviving examples appear infrequently at auction.