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4 Mariengroschen - Frederick Ulrich
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1624-1625 |
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| Value | 4 Mariengroschen (⅑) |
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| Obverse lettering | DEO ET PATRIAE HS 16 - 24 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Frederick Ulrich's reign over Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was marked by catastrophic mismanagement and the slow collapse of ducal authority into factional chaos — by the time the Thirty Years' War swept through Lower Saxony, the principality had already been internally destabilized for years. These 4 Mariengroschen pieces fall squarely within the Kipper und Wipper period, the currency debasement crisis of 1619–1623 that convulsed the Holy Roman Empire's monetary system. The dates 1624–1625 place this issue in the immediate aftermath, as mints scrambled to restrike debased coinage to something approaching honest weight.