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1/4 Thaler - John Frederick
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg (German States) |
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| Year | 1673 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Duke John Frederick facing right, rendered in high relief with long flowing hair characteristic of late 17th-century Baroque portraiture. The effigy displays a truncated draped bust with fine facial detail. The circular legend runs along the outer border of the obverse field, separated from the portrait by a slightly raised rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | EX DVRIS GLORIA .1673. (Translation: Glory from hard times.) |
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John Frederick of Brunswick-Calenberg was an unusual figure among the Protestant princes of the Holy Roman Empire — a convert to Catholicism who nonetheless ruled a Lutheran territory, walking a careful confessional tightrope throughout his reign from 1665 to 1679. His court at Hanover became one of the most culturally ambitious in northern Germany during this period, and Leibniz arrived there in 1676, just three years after this piece was struck.
Welter 1772 is specific to his Calenberg issues; the minting authority had been consolidated following the territorial divisions that fragmented the Welf holdings across much of the seventeenth century.