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6 Pfennige - Louis Rudolph
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1731-1735 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | LVDOVIC RVDOLPH.D.G.DVX.BR.ET LV. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Louis Rudolph ruled Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1731 until his death in 1735 — a reign short enough that the full coinage output for this denomination remains modest. He had previously governed Brunswick-Blankenburg as a separate principality before inheriting Wolfenbüttel, and the consolidation of those territories shaped the fiscal priorities that drove small silver production in these years. The Holy Roman Empire's persistent demand for small-denomination circulating coinage in the 1730s kept mints across the Lower Saxon Circle busy with exactly this type of fractional silver.