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1 Thaler - August Glockentaler
| Uitgever | Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel |
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| Jaar | 1643 |
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| Samenstelling | Silver |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | AUGUSTUS D G DUX BRUNSVIC ET LUNEBURG |
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| Rand | Plain |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
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.