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12 Mariengroschen - Rudolph August and Anthony Ulrich
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1686-1703 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | D G RUD AUG & ANTH ULR D D BR & LU 12 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel operated under joint rule from 1685 when Anthony Ulrich was elevated to co-regent alongside his elder brother Rudolph August — an arrangement that produced the relatively unusual dual-portrait coinage of this period. The brothers governed in persistent tension; Rudolph August preferred withdrawal from court life while Anthony Ulrich drove the duchy's cultural ambitions, funding an opera house and positioning Wolfenbüttel as a minor rival to Dresden.
The Mariengroschen denomination takes its name from the Virgin Mary, a holdover from Hanoverian and Lower Saxon minting traditions dating to the fifteenth century. Rudolph August died in 1704, ending the joint reign and the coinage type with it.