1 Thaler - Henry Julius Ausbeutetaler

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.