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24 Mariengroschen - Anthony Ulrich
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1705-1714 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSTANTER 24 |
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Anthony Ulrich ruled Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel for nearly half a century and spent much of it at war with Louis XIV, a campaign that drained ducal finances and made fractional silver coinage — including the Mariengroschen series — a practical necessity for paying troops and suppliers. He converted to Catholicism in 1710, a move that shocked Protestant northern Germany and was widely read as political maneuvering to position his dynasty favorably with the Habsburg emperor.
The 24 Mariengroschen denomination equaled two-thirds of a Reichsthaler, a valuation fixed by the Leipzig Monetary Convention of 1690.