4 Mariengroshen - Ernest August

Features

Issuer	Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg (German States)
Prince	Ernest Augustus (Ernst August) (1679-1698)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	1692-1696
Value	4 Mariengroschen (⅑)
Currency	Thaler
Composition	Silver
Weight	2.92 g
Diameter	22 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 182435
References	KM# 364 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , Welter# 2012 Gerhard Welter. Die Münzen der Welfen seit Heinrich dem Löwen. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany (3 volumes).

Obverse

Crowned cypher dividing the date, surrounded by inscription.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
*16 EA 94*
*SOLA BONA QUAE HONESTA

Reverse

Value in three lines with engravers initials below, surrounded by inscription.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
VON FEINEM SILBER
*IIII*
MARIEN
GROS:
·H·B·

Engraver: Heinrich Bonhorst

Mint

Clausthal, modern-day Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

Mark

HB	Heinrich Christian Bornhorst, Mint Master, Clausthal (1675-1711)

Comments

Minted in Clausthal

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Date		Frequency
Undetermined
1692	HB	38%
1694	HB	25%
1696	HB	25%

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