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24 Mariengroschen / ⅔ Thaler - George III
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg-Hannover |
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| Year | 1761-1800 |
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| Weight | 13.07 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Clausthal Mint |
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George III never set foot in Hanover. As Elector, he governed the territory entirely through ministers, and during the Seven Years' War — which overlapped the opening years of this issue — Hanover was occupied by French forces, leaving the electoral administration functionally displaced. The ⅔ Thaler denomination itself reflects the fragmented currency arithmetic of the Holy Roman Empire, where the Thaler was a unit of account as much as a coin, and regional states negotiated their own fractional relationships to it.
The series ran four decades under a king who lost the American colonies but never lost Hanover — that came later, under Napoleon, in 1803.