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1/4 Thaler - August Pattern
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1643 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#Pn2 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A crowned bell hanging centrally in the field, its clapper visible beneath, with the mint master's initials TSGEB inscribed on the body of the bell. Above the bell, a fan-like arrangement of radiating straps or ribbons issues upward. The entire central device is encircled by a beaded border, with the Latin motto legend ALLES MIT BEDACHT ANO 1643 T S E G B UTI SIC NISI distributed around the periphery, punctuated by small floral stops, between the inner beaded ring and the outer milled rim. |
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Patterns of this type were almost certainly produced as presentation pieces for August the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, whose court at Wolfenbüttel had become one of the more remarkable intellectual centers in the German lands — he assembled what was then the largest library in Europe. A gold striking of a silver denomination is a well-documented court practice: the piece was never intended for circulation but rather for gifting to diplomats or favored scholars during the Thirty Years' War, which was still grinding through its final years when this was struck.