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4 Mariengroschen - Rudolph August
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1675-1683 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1499-1814) |
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| Obverse description | Standing figure of a wildman (salvage man) facing slightly right, depicted nude and covered in foliage, holding an uprooted tree over his right shoulder. The numeral '4' appears to the left of the figure in the field, denoting the denomination. The encircling legend reads along the coin's milled border, with the duke's abbreviated Latin titles distributed around the periphery. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Rudolph August ruled Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1666 until his brother Anton Ulrich was made co-ruler in 1685, and the coinage of this period reflects the principality's determined effort to maintain a functioning small-denomination silver currency during years of post-Thirty Years' War economic fragmentation across the Lower Saxon Circle. The Mariengroschen — named for the Virgin Mary — was a regional accounting unit deeply embedded in Brunswick monetary practice, and the 4 Mariengroschen denomination filled a specific transactional gap between the Groschen and the larger Thaler fractions.
Welter 1857A distinguishes a die variant within this emission worth noting when attributing examples.