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1½ Thaler - George Löser
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg |
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| Year | 1634 |
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| Value | 11/2 Thaler (1.5) |
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| Obverse description | Armored half-length figure of Duke Georg of Brunswick-Lüneburg facing right, wearing elaborately decorated plate armor with a gorget and holding a baton, his head turned slightly toward the viewer. A beaded inner border frames the effigy, with the circumferential Latin legend reading GEORGIVS D G DVX BRUNSW ET LVNEBVRG ANNO 1634 within a dotted outer border. |
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| Obverse lettering | GEORGIVS D G DVX BRUNSW ET LVNEBVRG ANNO 1634 |
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The Löser series issued by Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg represents some of the most technically demanding coinage produced in seventeenth-century Germany. These multiple-thaler pieces were struck as presentation coins during the Thirty Years' War, a period when the duchy was actively contested and its rulers navigating shifting Protestant alliances. The 1½ Thaler denomination placed this piece in an awkward commercial middle ground — too heavy for routine exchange, too modest for the grandest diplomatic gifts — which likely kept production numbers low.
Georg of Calenberg died in 1641, making 1634 a mid-reign issue from a duke whose territories had been repeatedly occupied by Imperial forces in the preceding decade.