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1 Thaler
| Issuer | City of Brunswick (German States) |
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| Year | 1658-1670 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | MON(E). NOVA. REIP. - R(V)(U)NS(V)(U)ICENS(IS). |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Brunswick's civic thalers of this period were struck against a backdrop of sustained tension between the city council and the surrounding Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, whose dukes repeatedly pressed to absorb the city's autonomous minting rights. The city maintained those rights jealously, and coinage was one of the clearest public assertions of that independence. The relatively long emission span — twelve years across the same KM type — reflects institutional stubbornness as much as monetary need.
Jesse Braun's reference remains the authoritative die study for Brunswick civic coinage; his numbering distinguishes several obverse and reverse pairings within this type that Davenport consolidates under a single entry.