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2 Pfennig - Frederick Ulrich Kipper
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1620 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Frederick Ulrich's administration of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel coincided with the Kipper- und Wipperzeit, the catastrophic currency debasement crisis that swept the Holy Roman Empire between roughly 1619 and 1623. Mints across the German states — including Brunswick's — raced to produce debased small coinage, extracting profit by issuing coins with face values far exceeding their metal content. This piece is a product of that frenzy.
Welter 1343 places it firmly within Frederick Ulrich's copper issues of 1620, when copper substitution for silver in minor denominations was accelerating rapidly across Lower Saxony.