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BRUNSWICK-LÜNEBURG: Rudolph August, Duke, 1666-1685, AR medal (56.60g), 1676, VF-XF

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BRUNSWICK-LÜNEBURG: Rudolph August, Duke, 1666-1685, AR medal (56.60g), 1676, VF-XF
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This item SOLD at 2024 Jun 14 @ 09:53UTC-07:00 : PDT/MST
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BRUNSWICK-LÜNEBURG: Rudolph August, Duke, 1666-1685, AR medal (56.60g), 1676, Brockmann-266a, Fiala-1211, Knyphausen-959, Death of Prince August Friedrich of Wolfenbüttel; Johann Georg Breuer, engraver, AVG : FRIDERIC; D • BRVNS : ET • LVN :, bust of August Friedrich right; BREVER at base of bust // ODOR • AD • POSTEROS, emperor, holding scepter and globus cruciger, seated on throne below canopy inscribed MAIESTAS IMPERII; OCCVR : AD • EREPTAM • GALLIS • / PHILIPSBVRG • / M • DC • LXXVI • in three lines in exergue, approximately 56mm across, tooling in fields, VF-XF. Prince August Friedrich of Wolfenbüttel died at the age of 18 on August 22, 1676 from wounds inflicted during the siege of Philippsburg, a town near Germany's border with France. France had held the city since 1644, and during the Franco-Dutch War of 1672-1678, the Holy Roman Empire and its German allies organized a force to take it back. Because of the prince's untimely death, Princess Sophie Dorothea of Celle, whom August was set to marry, would instead marry Georg Ludwig of Hannover (later George I of Britain).