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2 Schillings - Julius Ernest
| Issuer | Principality of Dannenberg |
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| Year | 1619-1621 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Quartered shield of arms displaying the heraldic devices of the Brunswick-Lüneburg territories, including rampant lions and other dynastic charges arranged in four quarters, surmounted by three ornate crested helmets with elaborate mantling. The surrounding legend appears in Latin within the coin's beaded border. The overall style is characteristic of early seventeenth-century German hammered coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Julius Ernest ruled Dannenberg — one of the smallest and most short-lived of the Brunswick-Lüneburg partition territories — from 1598 until his death in 1636. This issue falls during the opening years of the Thirty Years' War, when the fragmented coinage authority of the Holy Roman Empire's lesser princes became both a practical necessity and, for many, a revenue-raising opportunity through deliberate debasement. Dannenberg's output was never large; the principality was absorbed into Celle upon Julius Ernest's death without male heirs.