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1 Thaler - August Glockentaler
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1643 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Half-length armored effigy of Duke Augustus the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel facing right, depicted in elaborate plate armor with a prominent gorget and pauldrons, holding a sword over his right shoulder. The duke's bearded portrait is rendered in a vigorous Baroque style characteristic of mid-seventeenth-century German coinage. The figure is framed within a beaded inner circle, with the Latin legend AUGUSTUS D G DUX BRUNS ET LUN distributed around the periphery, identifying him as Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg by the grace of God. Separating dots punctuate the inscription at intervals. |
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| Obverse lettering | AUGUSTUS D G DUX BRUNS ET LUN |
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The "Glockentaler" — bell thaler — takes its name from the distinctive casting of the bells themselves, with the coin struck to commemorate the recasting of the great bells at the St. Blasius collegiate church in Brunswick. August the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, was an obsessive bibliophile who assembled one of the largest private libraries in 17th-century Europe, but his patronage extended to ecclesiastical rebuilding projects throughout his territories, disrupted as they were by thirty years of intermittent Thirty Years' War occupation.
Welter 806 distinguishes this as the .2 variety. The Davenport attribution places it firmly in the broader Stolbergische series of German commemorative thalers — a category defined more by civic occasion than dynastic necessity.