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1/2 Reichsort / 1/8 Thaler - Christian Louis
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle |
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| Year | 1650-1665 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | CHRIST LUD . D . G·DUX BR · ET LUNEB LW (Translation: Christian Louis, by the Grace of God, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg.) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Christian Ludwig ruled Celle from 1648 until his death in 1665, a period when the fragmented Brunswick-Lüneburg territories were still absorbing the economic wreckage of the Thirty Years' War. Fractional silver of this type circulated heavily through the recovery years, and surviving pieces in anything above well-worn condition are genuinely scarce — not from collector demand but from the grinding daily use these small denominations saw in regional trade.
The dual denomination designation — Reichsort and eighth-Thaler simultaneously — reflects the persistent awkwardness of mapping local reckoning systems onto the imperial Reichsthaler standard codified at Augsburg in 1559.