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1 Thaler - Henry the younger
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1568 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Henry the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel reigned until his death in 1568 at the extraordinary age of ninety, having outlived multiple sons and navigated decades of confessional conflict as one of the most tenacious Catholic princes in northern Germany. His resistance to the Reformation put him in direct military confrontation with the Schmalkaldic League, which captured and imprisoned him in 1545 — yet he recovered his territories after the league's defeat at Mühlberg two years later. This thaler was struck in the final year of his reign, almost certainly as a memorial or dynastic issue rather than routine currency.