1 Thaler - August Glockentaler

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.