1 Thaler - George I Pines in Straight Lines

George I — then still Elector of Hanover, nearly two decades from the British throne — presided over a duchy whose forests were treated as serious economic infrastructure. The pine-forest reverses on Hanover's late 17th-century thalers were not decorative whimsy; they documented real territorial claims and the timber revenues that underwrote the electorate's growing ambitions. The "straight lines" designation distinguishes this die variety from the curved-line treatment used on otherwise identical strikes, a difference catalogued by Welter that matters considerably to type collectors working through the series.