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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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| Value | 11/2 Thaler (1.5) |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the interlaced cipher monogram JF (for Duke Johann Friedrich) beneath a princely crown, surrounded by fourteen small armorial shields arranged in a ring. The denomination 1 1/2 is punched into the field. A circular legend incorporating the date 1672 and the mint-master initials LW frames the composition, rendered in Latin script. |
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| Mintage | 1672 |
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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.