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1 Ducat - George Louis
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg-Hannover |
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| Year | 1714 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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George Louis became Elector of Hanover in 1698 and spent the following decade quietly positioning himself as the Protestant heir to the British throne under the Act of Settlement of 1701. When Queen Anne died in August 1714, he was proclaimed George I of Great Britain — making this ducat, struck in his electoral territory that same year, a transitional issue caught between two identities: a German prince who had just become a British king and would never bother to learn English.
The Calenberg mint at Hanover supplied the bulk of his gold coinage for the electorate during this period, continuing output largely uninterrupted by the dynastic shift across the Channel.