1⁄24 Thaler - George II

George II's attentions were largely fixed on Britain by the early 1730s, leaving Calenberg-Hannover's administrative apparatus to manage routine coinage almost autonomously. The 1/24 Thaler denomination was a workhorse of petty commerce throughout the German states, and billon issues of this size circulated hard and fast among the lower denominations — which makes clean survivors rarer than mintage figures alone would suggest.