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2 Ducats - Ernest Augustus
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg |
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| Year | 1694 |
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| Value | 2 Ducats (7) |
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| Obverse description | Armored and draped bust of Ernest Augustus facing right, with long flowing curled wig rendered in high relief in the Baroque style. The effigy displays elaborate pauldron and cuirass detailing beneath a billowing mantle. The circumferential Latin legend is separated by stops and runs along the toothed border of the coin. |
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| Reverse lettering | SOLA BONA QVAE HONESTA H B 1694 |
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Ernest Augustus had spent decades maneuvering for electoral dignity, and 1694 was his payoff — Emperor Leopold I formally elevated Brunswick-Lüneburg to an electorate that year, making Ernest Augustus the first Elector of Hanover. This coin was struck in the immediate aftermath of that elevation. He died the following year, making issues dated 1694 among the last produced under his authority.
The Welter reference places this among a well-documented run of ducats from the Clausthal mint, struck from Harz Mountain gold — a source the Brunswick dukes had exploited aggressively since the sixteenth century.