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1/4 Thaler - August
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1643 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | AUGUSTUS HERTZOG ZU BRAUNS U LU |
| Reverse description | A large crowned bell, Duke August's personal impresa or device, occupies the centre of the field, with the initials T·S·G·B inscribed on its body, referencing the ducal motto. Flanking the bell are a diagonal ladder on the left and radiating beams or rods above, all enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding circular legend, in German, reads ALLES MIT BEDACHT ANO 1643 UTI SIC NISI T S E G B, conveying the ducal motto 'Everything with deliberation' alongside the date 1643. |
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Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel's August the Younger — Duke from 1635 until his death in 1666 — was among the most prolific book collectors in seventeenth-century Europe, amassing a library of over 130,000 volumes that formed the nucleus of today's Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. This 1643 issue falls squarely within the Thirty Years' War, which devastated much of the German territorial patchwork around him, though Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel navigated the conflict with relative diplomatic dexterity.
Welter 836 is well-documented within the series. The 1643 date places it two years before the Congress of Westphalia opened.