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1 Thaler - August
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1639-1648 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | AUGUSTUS. HERTZOG. ZU. BRUNS. U. LUN. |
| Reverse description | Large crowned quartered shield of the Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel arms, bearing the heraldic devices of the duchy including lions, hearts, and other charges in multiple quarters, flanked by ornate scrollwork and surmounted by three crowned helmets with elaborate mantling. The date of issue appears in the field to the left and right of the shield. The surrounding legend ALLES MIT BEDACHT runs along the border. |
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August the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, was an obsessive bibliophile who assembled what became the largest library in Europe — the Herzog August Bibliothek at Wolfenbüttel still bears his name. His thalers span nearly a decade precisely because he reigned through the final, grinding years of the Thirty Years' War, a conflict that devastated the Brunswick territories and made continuous silver coinage both a political necessity and a practical challenge as bullion supplies fluctuated with the fortunes of war.
The Dav ST#6348 designation places this within the Stolberg reference for Saxon-type thalers, distinguishing it from the standard Davenport European sequence. The Welter "var." notation signals minor die differences across the 1639–1648 run — likely punch variations in the titles as August's territorial designations shifted.