1/8 Thaler - August, 'der Jüngere'

August the Younger ruled Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel until his death in 1666 at the age of 91, making him one of the oldest reigning German princes of the seventeenth century. His court at Wolfenbüttel housed one of the largest private libraries in Europe — over 135,000 volumes — and he personally catalogued much of it under the pseudonym Gustavus Selenus. The coinage issued under his name during the early 1660s reflects a principality with functioning silver supplies from the Harz mountain mines, a resource that neighboring territories frequently contested.

Welter 844 is a relatively scarce denomination within the August coinage series.