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1 Thaler - August Glockentaler
| Issuer | Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel |
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| Year | 1643 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Half-length armored effigy of Duke Augustus the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel facing right, clad in elaborately engraved full plate armor with gorget and pauldrons, holding a sword upright in his right hand and a helmet in his left. The figure occupies most of the field within a beaded inner circle. The peripheral legend reads AUGUSTUS HERZOG ZU BRAUNSVIC UND LU in German script, distributed around the full circumference of the coin. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The "Glockentaler" designation refers to the bell-casting iconography tied to Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, who commissioned this issue during the final years of the Thirty Years' War. Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel had endured repeated occupation and extraction of resources by both Imperial and Swedish forces across the preceding decade, and the 1643 issue falls within a period when the duchy was attempting to reassert administrative and economic coherence before the Peace of Westphalia.
Augustus was an unusually learned ruler — his personal library at Wolfenbüttel became one of the largest in Europe, later forming the core of the Herzog August Bibliothek. His thaler issues from this period are accordingly well-documented in the literature.