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Issuing authority

Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Kind
principality
Region
Western Europe, Europe

Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.

Published entries

5

Individual types and documented families

With photographs

100%

5 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

1558 – 1744

5 entries with their own date

Verified or well documented

0

Highest two confidence levels

Sorted by date, earliest first.

Ducat from Brunswick of Heinrich II, 1558

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Ducat from Brunswick of Heinrich II, 1558

1558

Gold coin. Obverse: bust of the sovereign facing left with collar and badge of the Golden Fleece. Date: 58 in legend. Reverse: Fortuna standing facing right within four coats of arms and the collar with badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-1-312; its record…

Documented

Partial type record

Brillentaler from Brunswick of Julius, 1588

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Brillentaler from Brunswick of Julius, 1588

1588

Silver coin. Obverse: composite coat of arms, above which three crests. Reverse: wild man with gnarled stick in right hand and burning candle in left hand with leaping horse to the left in front of him. Date below. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-0557C; its record gives material recorded as…

Documented

Partial type record

24 Mariengroschen from Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Rudolf August and Anton Ulrich, 1697

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

24 Mariengroschen from Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Rudolf August and Anton Ulrich, 1697

1697

Silver coin. Obverse: wild man standing in a landscape, holding a pine tree with both hands. Number 24 in the field. Reverse: value indication in four lines. Date in the legend. Plain edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-0614A; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); techniqu…

Documented

Partial type record

Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, August Wilhelm, 2/3 Thaler, 1716

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, August Wilhelm, 2/3 Thaler, 1716

1716

Silver coin. Obverse: crowned monogram of the ruler. Reverse: horse galloping to the left. In the exergue, value indication and date. Plain edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-0614B; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diam…

Documented

Partial type record

6 Mariengroschen from Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Karl I, 1744

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

6 Mariengroschen from Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Karl I, 1744

1744

Silver coin. Obverse: wild man standing in a landscape, holding a pine tree with his left hand. Number 6 in the field. Reverse: value indication in four lines. Date in the legend. Plain edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-0614C; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); techni…

Documented

Partial type record

Dated entries by century

  • 16th century2
  • 17th century1
  • 18th century2

Only the 5 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.

Materials recorded in the physical descriptions

  • Silver4
  • Gold1

An entry made of several materials is counted once under each. Materials are counted only where the description states them.

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