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10 Thalers - Ernest August
| Issuer | Hannover, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1837-1838 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ERNST AUGUST V.G.G.KOENIG V.HANNOVER |
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Ernest August became King of Hannover in June 1837 under circumstances that immediately destabilized his reign. One of his first acts was to revoke the liberal constitution of 1833, dismissing seven Göttingen professors — including Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm — who publicly protested the move. The political turbulence of that first year almost certainly drove the short production window for this type, which spans only 1837 and 1838.
Hannover's gold coinage of this period was struck at the Clausthal mint, operating under constraints imposed by the German monetary conventions of the 1830s before the broader Thaler standardization of 1857 reshaped regional issues entirely.