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4 Mariengroschen - John Frederick
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg |
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| Year | 1676 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | EX DURIS GLORIA 1676 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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John Frederick, Duke of Calenberg from 1665, was the most aggressively Catholic of the Brunswick-Lüneburg line — a convert who invited Leibniz to his court and spent heavily on Italianate architecture while his Protestant subjects seethed. The 4 Mariengroschen denomination was a workhorse of Lower Saxon trade coinage, and Calenberg's issues from this period circulated well beyond ducal borders into the broader Reichstaler zone. Welter 1792 is among the more straightforward attributions in this otherwise tangled series, where die-sharing between Calenberg and neighboring Brunswick mints routinely complicates cataloging.