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1 Thaler - August Glockentaler
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1643 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | A large crowned bell occupying the center of the field, adorned with a ducal crown above and with the mintmaster's initials inscribed at its base; to the left, a crozier or ceremonial staff leans diagonally against the bell. The entire composition is set within a beaded inner circle, with the outer legend divided into two parts: a Latin motto in the lower field reading UTI SIC NISI and a German phrase ALLES MIT BEDACHT (meaning 'all with deliberation') along the upper border, together with the date ANNO 1643. |
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| Reverse lettering | *UTI * SIC * NISI * * ALLES * MIT * BEDACHT * ANNO * 1643 |
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The "Glockentaler" — bell thaler — takes its name from the foundry scene struck to commemorate the casting of the great bell for the Marienkirche in Wolfenbüttel, ordered by Duke Augustus the Younger. August had the coin issued in 1643 specifically to mark that occasion, a practice of commemorative thaler production that Brunswick rulers had refined over generations into something approaching high art. The duchy was deep in the Thirty Years' War at this point, which makes the commissioning of a ceremonial church bell — and a coin to celebrate it — a deliberate act of civic and religious defiance.
The KM#419.1 designation distinguishes this die marriage from related varieties catalogued under Welter 807.