1⁄12 Thaler - Charles I

Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel occupied an awkward position in mid-eighteenth-century German politics — nominally under Habsburg suzerainty but practically entangled with British dynastic interests through the House of Hanover. Charles I, who ruled from 1735 to 1780, navigated the Seven Years' War by ultimately committing Brunswick troops to the allied cause, a decision that drained the principality's treasury and drove repeated adjustments to its subsidiary silver coinage across this issue's production window.

The eleven-year span of this type across Welter 2756 encompasses several die variants documented by Welter, with subtle differences in the mintmaster's initials appearing across the run.