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1 Thaler - August Reisetaler
| Issuer | Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel |
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| Year | 1650 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Draped armored bust of Duke Augustus the Younger (August der Jüngere) facing right, wearing elaborate lace collar and intricately decorated cuirass with foliate ornamentation. The duke is depicted with a full beard and moustache, his hair worn short. A beaded inner border frames the bust, with the legend running along the outer periphery. The portrait is rendered in high relief in the baroque style characteristic of mid-seventeenth-century German coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1650: ND (1650) |
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The "Reisetaler" — literally "travel thaler" — was struck to commemorate Duke August the Younger's journey to the Imperial Diet at Nuremberg in 1649, one of the first major diets following the Peace of Westphalia. August was already in his late seventies and an internationally respected bibliophile; his library at Wolfenbüttel was among the finest in Europe. The coin functioned as a presentation piece distributed along the route and at court, not a circulation issue.
Dav. 6357 places this squarely within the commemorative thaler tradition of the Brunswick dukes, who were unusually prolific producers of event-specific coinage throughout the seventeenth century.