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1 Thaler - Henry Julius Lügentaler
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1596 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1499-1814) |
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| Reverse description | A winged Victory (Nike) figure in flight, moving to the left, holds aloft a laurel wreath above a lion passant to the left. The date 1596 is inscribed in the field between these two motifs. The design is framed by a double marginal border with circular legends in Latin script. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Henry Julius, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, was also a prolific dramatist — one of the first German playwrights to write in the vernacular — and the "Lügentaler" (Liar's Thaler) belongs to a polemical series he commissioned against the city of Brunswick, with which he was locked in a bitter territorial and jurisdictional dispute throughout the 1590s. The coins were instruments of public humiliation as much as currency, each type in the series targeting a specific grievance.
The Welter 628 attribution places this among the earlier strikes of the series. Die alignment and planchet quality vary considerably across known examples.