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| Issuer | Brunswick, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1839-1850 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1815-1856) |
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| Reverse lettering | EIN THALER XIV EINE F.M. 18 41 |
| Edge | Lettered: NEC ASPERA TERRENT |
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Brunswick's Thaler coinage of this period was tied directly to the Dresden Convention of 1838, which standardized the North German Thaler at 22.27 grams and brought a patchwork of competing German state coinages into reluctant alignment. William — Herzog Wilhelm, who had reclaimed the duchy in 1830 after his brother Ernst August's accession to Hanover dissolved their personal union — issued this piece under a monetary framework he had little hand in designing.
The .750 fineness was below that of many contemporary Prussian issues, a compromise baked into the Convention itself.