1⁄16 Thaler

Brunswick's 1/16 thaler issues of 1675–76 fall squarely within the chaos following the Thirty Years' War, when the city retained its own minting rights despite the growing consolidation of coinage authority by the surrounding Duchy. The city and the ducal house maintained an uneasy jurisdictional overlap in monetary matters for decades, and small fractional silver of this type was the practical currency of everyday commerce — market stalls, toll payments, minor debts — in a region still recovering from wartime population collapse and trade disruption.