1 Ducat - George Louis Harz - Ausbeute

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.