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1 Mariengroschen
| Issuer | Brunswick, City of |
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| Year | 1622-1653 |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Obverse description | The crowned lion of Brunswick, rampant to the left, occupies the central field within a beaded inner circle. The date appears at the beginning of the circumferential Latin legend, which reads MONE(TA). NOVA. BRUN(SV). The lion is rendered in the Gothic style typical of early seventeenth-century hammered coinage from the Lower Saxon region. The flan is irregular in shape, consistent with hand-struck production of the period. |
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| Reverse description | The Virgin Mary, crowned and nimbed, stands facing in full figure at center, holding the Christ Child before her with both arms, surrounded by a radiate aureole of flames. The composition is typical of the Mariengroschen type produced in Lower Saxony during the early seventeenth century, with the Madonna rendered in a stylized Gothic manner. A beaded inner circle frames the central device, and the circumferential Latin legend reads MARIA. MA - TER. DOM(I)(NI). The flan edges are irregular, characteristic of hammered coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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