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4 Gute Pfennig
| Issuer | Brunswick, City of |
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| Year | 1676 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | IIII / GVTE / PENN / 1676 |
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Brunswick's municipal coinage operated in persistent tension with the duchy surrounding it — the city maintained its own minting rights as a quasi-independent imperial city even as the Welfen dukes pressed for consolidation. The 1670s issues, including this piece, came during a particularly fraught period: the city had only recently resolved a prolonged constitutional dispute with Duke Rudolf August, and the right to strike coin was itself a marker of that hard-won autonomy.
Jesse 288 places this squarely within a short emission window. The 4 Gute Pfennig denomination was a practical subdivision for local commerce, not interregional trade.