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11/2 Thaler - Anthony Ulrich Conversion to Catholicism
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1710 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | ANTONIUS ULRIC: D:G:DUX.BR:ET LUNEB: |
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| Reverse lettering | SEMPER IDEM CONSTANTER |
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Anthony Ulrich converted to Catholicism in 1710 at the age of 78, a move that scandalized Protestant Germany and was widely read as a political maneuver to secure imperial favor in Vienna rather than any genuine spiritual conviction. As Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, his conversion threatened the confessional integrity of a principality whose Lutheran identity had been legally entrenched since the Peace of Westphalia. This thaler was struck to commemorate that conversion — an unusual choice, given that most of his subjects regarded the event as something between an embarrassment and a betrayal.
He died two years later, in 1714, having never persuaded his heir to follow him into Rome.