1 Thaler - Christian

Christian of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle — not to be confused with his more notorious nephew, the "Mad Christian" of Halberstadt — ruled Celle from 1611 until his death in 1633, a reign almost entirely consumed by the opening decades of the Thirty Years' War. This thaler dates to 1617, a year before the Bohemian revolt that formally ignited the conflict, placing it at the precise moment of maximum pre-war political tension among the Protestant princes of the Empire. The Welter 921 attribution distinguishes this die pairing from closely related Celle issues of the same period, several of which share obverse or reverse dies.