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3 Groschen - Louis Rudolph Death of August Wilhelm
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1731 |
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| Weight | 3.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Duke August Wilhelm of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel facing right, rendered in high relief with long flowing curled hair in the Baroque style. The portrait is boldly modelled, showing fine detail in the drapery at the truncation. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy within a reeded border, with a small mintmaster initial 'S' visible at the bottom of the field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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August Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, died in March 1731, and this coin is one of several mourning issues struck to mark the occasion — a German territorial tradition that treated death as an occasion for commemorative coinage no less formal than a coronation. Louis Rudolph, who succeeded him, had himself only months left to rule before his own death in 1735 extinguished the Wolfenbüttel line entirely, forcing the territory's absorption into Brunswick-Bevern governance.