1 Thaler - Anthony Ulrich Death

Anthony Ulrich ruled Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel for over five decades and spent much of that time building one of the most elaborate courts in the German lands — a deliberate cultural rivalry with Versailles. This thaler was struck in 1704, the year his son Ludwig Rudolf died, not Anthony Ulrich himself; he would not die until 1714. The "Death" designation in the series refers to a memorial issue within a broader dynastic commemorative program, a common practice among the Guelph princes who used the thaler format aggressively for political messaging.

Anthony Ulrich converted to Catholicism in 1710, a move that shocked Protestant northern Germany and complicated the succession.