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6 Mariengroschen - Charles William Ferdinand
| Issuer | Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel |
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| Year | 1785-1788 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | CAROLVS . GVILIELMVS . FERDINANDVS . VI MARIEN GROSCH: FEINSILB: 1785 |
| Reverse description | The reverse features a standing full-length figure of the Wild Man of Brunswick (the Brunswicker savage), depicted facing forward, nude and bearded, holding a uprooted tree trunk as a club in his right hand and resting his left hand on his hip, standing on a grassy ground line. The numeral 6 appears to the left of the figure in the field. The encircling legend D . G . DVX BRVNSVIC . ET . LVNEBVRG . runs along the upper periphery, with the mint master's initials C.E.S. positioned in the exergue below the ground line. |
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Charles William Ferdinand — who would later command Prussian forces at Valmy in 1792 and issue the notorious Brunswick Manifesto threatening Paris with destruction — was still a relatively cautious reformer during the years this coin circulated. The Mariengroschen denomination itself was a north German peculiarity, its name derived from a medieval Marian devotional tradition that had long outlasted its religious meaning by the time these were struck at the Zellerfeld or Clausthal mint in the Harz.
The four-year span of this type likely reflects a routine recoinage rather than any monetary disruption.