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1 Thaler - George I Louis Harz - Ausbeute
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg-Hannover |
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| Year | 1712-1713 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | GEORG LUD D G D BR & L S R I ARCHITHES & EL 1713 HCB |
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| Edge | Ornamented |
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George I Louis — Elector of Hanover and, from 1714, King of Great Britain — issued these Ausbeute thalers specifically from the silver yield of the Harz mountain mines, a distinction that elevated them beyond ordinary currency into deliberate assertions of territorial resource wealth. The Harz mining operations were among the most productive in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Hanoverians were acutely aware of their political value. Ausbeute coinage was as much a proclamation of mining lordship as it was money.
Production across 1712 and 1713 predates George's accession to the British throne by barely a year, making this issue a late artifact of his purely German rule before the Act of Settlement reshuffled his priorities entirely.