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1/2 Thaler
| Issuer | Brunswick, City of |
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| Year | 1624-1637 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA. NOVA. REIP. BRUNSVICEN. |
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| Reverse lettering | FERDINAND. II. D. G. ROM. IM. S. A. |
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Brunswick's municipal half thalers of this period were struck during the Thirty Years' War, when the city's status as a Free Imperial City made its coinage politically pointed — a declaration of civic autonomy at a moment when that autonomy was under genuine military threat. The city fell to Imperial forces under Pappenheim in 1627, and minting continuity across that occupation makes the precise dating of individual pieces within this range genuinely difficult.
Jesse's work on Lower Saxon municipal coinage remains the essential reference for die attribution here.