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1 Thaler - August Glockentaler
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1643 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | ALLES MIT BEDACHT ANNO 1643 |
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The "Glockentaler" — bell thaler — takes its name from the inscription cast around the coin's edge, a verse from Schiller's "Das Lied von der Glocke" predating the poem itself by over 150 years. The actual source is a German proverb circulating since the medieval period: Vivos voco, mortuos plango, fulgura frango — I call the living, I mourn the dead, I break the lightning. August, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, had this struck during the closing years of the Thirty Years' War, when the duchy was under severe military and financial pressure.
The Dav ST prefix distinguishes it as a Schautaler — a presentation piece rather than a circulation coin, which accounts for the survival rate in finer grades.