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1 Ducat - George Louis Harz - Ausbeute
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg-Hannover |
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| Year | 1715-1727 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A cruciform arrangement of four crowned heraldic shields occupying the full field, each shield separated by scepters forming a saltire cross pattern, with a central sunburst radiating from the intersection. The upper shield bears the arms of Great Britain (quarterly, England and Scotland with France in pretence), the left and right shields display the arms of Brunswick and Luneburg respectively, and the lower shield bears the arms of Westphalia. The date 1717 is divided across the upper field flanking the central shield, and the circular Latin legend BR & L D S R I A T & EL encircles the design, denoting the ruler's titles as Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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George Louis — Elector of Hanover — became George I of Great Britain in 1714, and these Ausbeute ducats were struck from silver and gold yields of the Harz mining district, a revenue source the Welfen dynasty had jealously administered for centuries. Ausbeute coinage was a formal acknowledgment that specific mine yields had been allocated to coin production, making each piece traceable in principle to a particular extraction cycle rather than consolidated treasury metal.
The Harz mines were by this period already in gradual decline, worked harder and deeper than in their sixteenth-century peak. Müseler's classification system distinguishes multiple die marriages within this type across the issue span.