1 Thaler - George II August Güte des Herrn - Ausbeute

Brunswick-Lüneburg mining thalers of this type — known as Ausbeute coins — were struck directly from ore extracted at the Harz Mountain mines, a practice that served both as a demonstration of the territory's mineral wealth and as a record of productive mining years. George II, simultaneously Elector of Hanover and King of Great Britain, had little personal involvement in Harz administration, but the mines operated under vigorous management throughout the 1740s and 1750s, yielding enough silver to sustain this multi-year issue across several die marriages.

The Müseler reference places this among a well-documented but genuinely scarce subseries of Harz Ausbeute thalers — mine-production pieces were celebratory by nature and never struck in quantities approaching commercial coinage.