3 Thalers - Frederick Ulrich Löser

The Löser — a large-format multiple thaler struck primarily for presentation rather than commerce — was a specialty of the Brunswick mints, and Frederick Ulrich's issues from 1617 come early in a reign that would prove disastrously unstable. He assumed control of Wolfenbüttel that same year upon his father Heinrich Julius's death in Prague, inheriting both the duchy and its considerable debts. The Thirty Years' War broke out just one year later, and Brunswick would spend much of Frederick Ulrich's tenure occupied, contested, or diplomatically compromised.

Dav BrSL#38a distinguishes this specific die pairing within what is already a small surviving population.