1 Thaler - George II August Lautenthal - Ausbeute

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.