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1 Thaler - Julius Brillentaler
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1586 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | IVLIVS DG D BRVN E LV N R M A D I |
| Reverse description | A facing wildman (Wilder Mann), depicted nude and bearded, stands centrally dividing the date 1586 and the inscription '14 - IVNII' referencing 14 June. In his raised right hand he holds a lighted candle, a skull, an hourglass, and a pair of spectacles — emblematic of vanity and mortality — while grasping a uprooted tree trunk in his left hand. A surrounding Latin legend bears the abbreviated moralistic inscription referencing the futility of eyeglasses to one who will not help or know himself, giving the coin its popular epithet 'Brillentaler' (Spectacles Thaler). |
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