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11/2 Thaler - John Frederick Harz - Ausbeute - Löser
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg |
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| Year | 1672 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A spirited horse leaping to the left occupies the upper portion of the field, rendered in high relief with naturalistic detail including flowing mane and tail, set against billowing clouds in the upper right. Below, an elaborate panoramic Harz mining landscape is depicted in fine engraved detail: miners and workers are shown engaged in various activities among pit-head structures, timber frames, and conical spoil heaps, with forest trees at left and a mine-building at lower right. In the lower foreground, a cross-section view of a mine shaft reveals two miners at work underground. The entire design is enclosed within a decorative chain or rope border. |
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The Ausbeute coinage of the Harz mining districts represents one of the more precisely documented branches of 17th-century German silver production — these pieces were struck directly from ore yields ("Ausbeute") of specific mines, functioning as a kind of dividend-in-coin paid to the territorial lord. John Frederick of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg, who ruled Calenberg from 1665 until his death in 1679, was an aggressive consolidator of mining revenues in the Upper Harz, and the Löser format — these large, heavy presentation-grade multiples — served fiscal and diplomatic purposes simultaneously.
The Müseler reference places this firmly within the Clausthal mint's output for that period.