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1 Thaler - George II August Lautenthal - Ausbeute
| Issuer | Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg-Hannover |
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| Year | 1745-1756 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A draped allegorical female figure, personifying the mine or Music, stands in the center of the field playing a lute, depicted in a flowing classical robe. Behind her, in the middle ground, a detailed panoramic view of the Lautenthals Glück mine near Lautenthal in the Harz Mountains is rendered, showing mine buildings, headframes, and associated structures set within a hilly landscape. A three-line inscription in the lower exergue reads: DIE GRUBE / LAUTENTHALS GLÜCK / KAM IN AUSBEVT / IM QV: REMIN: 1685 / I.B.H., referencing the reopening of the mine in 1685. The circular Latin legend around the upper periphery reads: TV QVONDAM ABIECTAM REDDIS DEVS ALME SONORAM, separated from the milled border by a beaded inner rim. |
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| Edge | Ornamented |
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Ausbeute thalers — mining yield pieces — were struck from silver extracted at specific mines and presented as gifts to investors, mine officials, and ruling patrons. This issue draws from the Lautenthal operations in the Upper Harz, a district that had supplied the Brunswick-Lüneburg court with mining revenues for generations. George II, simultaneously King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover, rarely set foot in his German territories after 1743, yet the Harz mines remained administratively and financially central to Hanoverian governance throughout his reign.
The Lautenthal works experienced periodic output fluctuations across this eleven-year striking window, which accounts for the variety of die combinations documented under Müseler's classification.