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1 Thaler - Charles I
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1735-1770 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1499-1814) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | D • G • CAROLVS • DVX • BRVNSVIC • & LVNEBVRG • 1735 |
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Charles I ruled Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1735 until his death in 1780, but the thaler series bearing his name spans only to 1770 — the final decade of his reign seeing a marked reduction in silver coinage output as the Seven Years' War drained the principality's treasury and disrupted mint operations at Zellerfeld. Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel had supplied troops to both sides of various eighteenth-century conflicts through subsidiary treaties, and the financial strain of maintaining those commitments showed directly in coinage volume.
Davenport's German Talers II cross-reference at 2146 distinguishes several die varieties across the run.