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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Brunswick, City of |
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| Year | 1631-1636 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts the Imperial double-headed eagle displayed, with wings spread, each head surmounted by a crown, and the breast charged with an orb bearing a cross. Above the eagle a large imperial crown is shown, while the date appears at the top of the field flanking the crown. The encircling Latin legend, reading FERDINAND. II. D. G. ROM. IMP. SEM. AUGUS., identifies the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II as suzerain, affirming the city's imperial coinage privilege. The design is contained within a beaded border and executed in the bold, deeply struck hammered tradition of the period. |
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| Mintage | 1631 - - 1632 - - 1633 - - 1634 - - 1635 - - 1636 - - |
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Brunswick struck these thalers during the Thirty Years' War while the city navigated a precarious position in the Lower Saxon Circle. The war had devastated regional silver circulation, and municipal issues like this one served to plug gaps left by interrupted imperial and ducal coinage — the city's mint operating under conditions of genuine monetary emergency rather than civic prestige.
The Jesse reference places this among a tightly documented series of Brunswick city coinage; Jesse 140 is a recognized variety within the KM#30 grouping, distinguishing it from superficially similar issues of the same run.