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1/2 Thaler - August Glockenhalbtaler
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1643 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1499-1814) |
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| Obverse description | Armored half-length effigy of Duke August the Younger facing left, depicted in three-quarter view wearing elaborately decorated plate armor with a lace collar visible beneath the gorget, holding a plumed helmet in his left hand and a commander's baton in his right. The figure is rendered in high relief with fine detail on the armor's ornamentation. A beaded inner circle frames the central design, with the circumferential Latin legend reading continuously around the outer field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ALLES MIT BEDACHT ANNO 1643 TAN - DEM WAIDIR E MVII B 14 (sign of jupiter) |
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The "Glockenthaler" series takes its name from bronze captured during the Thirty Years' War — specifically from Catholic church bells melted down by Brunswick forces and restruck as Protestant coin silver. The 1643 date places this half thaler among the final issues of the type, struck just five years before the Peace of Westphalia ended the conflict that generated the metal itself.
Duke August the Younger authorized the series partly as propaganda: circulating coin that literally announced its origins in confiscated ecclesiastical bronze was a pointed statement in a war fought substantially over confessional allegiances.