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1 Thaler - William VIII
| Issuer | Brunswick, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1851 |
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| Weight | 22.27 g |
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| Reverse description | Crowned and elaborately mantled coat of arms of the Duchy of Brunswick displayed centrally, featuring a quartered shield with heraldic devices including the Brunswick lion and other dynastic emblems, supported by decorative drapery on either side. The crown surmounts the shield at top center. The denomination EIN THALER and the fineness statement XIV EINE F. M. are inscribed in the legend arcing across the upper and lower fields respectively, with the date 1851 divided and placed at the lower left and right of the shield. An Order of Henry the Lion cross appears pendant below the shield. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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William VIII's reign over Brunswick was already politically tenuous by 1851 — the duchy had been rocked by liberal agitation in 1848, and William had spent those years making grudging constitutional concessions while watching neighboring German states suppress or accommodate revolutionary pressure with varying results. The thaler series issued under his name in the early 1850s belongs to a period of deliberate reassertion of dynastic authority, the coinage functioning as one of the few unambiguous public declarations of sovereign continuity available to a minor German court.
The .750 fineness places this outside the later Vereinsthaler standard of .900, which Brunswick would eventually adopt.