1 Thaler - Henry the younger

Henry the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was one of the most tenacious Catholic princes in northern Germany, holding out against the Lutheran Reformation long after his neighbors had converted — a position that brought him into direct military conflict with the Schmalkaldic League, which invaded his territory and deposed him in 1542. He regained his lands in 1547 only because Charles V defeated the League at Mühlberg. This thaler dates from that restored rule, struck just eight years before his death in 1568.

Davenport's GT I classification places it among the great German thalers of the mid-sixteenth century. Welter 393 is the standard attribution for the type.