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1 Thaler - Henry Julius Ausbeutetaler
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1599 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1499-1814) |
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| Obverse description | Nine-fold composite arms with central shield, surmounted by three ornate helmets with elaborate crests, occupying the full field. The circumferential legend reading the titles of Heinrich Julius, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, runs in Latin along the coin's border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Henry Julius ruled Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1589 until his death in 1613, and his Ausbeutetaler issues were struck directly from silver produced by the Rammelsberg mines near Goslar — a deliberate political statement of territorial ownership over those revenues. The "Ausbeute" designation marks this as a mine-yield coin, a category that functioned partly as propaganda, circulated to demonstrate control over productive mining districts at a time when the Harz region's silver output was genuinely significant to the lower Saxon economy.
The 1599 date places this piece in a productive run of Henry Julius issues. Müseler's specialized corpus on mining coins of the Harz remains the authoritative reference for distinguishing the die varieties within this series.