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3 Thalers - Frederick Ulrich Löser
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1624 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#348, Welter#1013, Dav BrSL#51 |
| Obverse description | Duke Friedrich Ulrich in full armour, depicted as an equestrian figure mounted on a prancing horse moving to the right, his cloak billowing behind him and a baton or sword held in his right hand. The ruler wears an elaborate suit of armour with decorative detailing and a ruff collar, his head in profile facing right. The entire composition is enclosed within a beaded inner border, with a circular Latin legend running between the inner and outer beaded rims reading FRIDERICUS ULRICUS DEI GRATIA DUX BRUNSVICENSIS. |
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| Reverse description | Elaborately rendered oval achievement of arms of the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, quartered and displaying multiple heraldic devices including lions, a horse, and other dynastic charges, surmounted by a crowned helm with ornate crest and mantling. The shield is supported on either side by rampant lions. The whole is rendered in high relief with fine baroque decorative mantling surrounding the escutcheon. A circular Latin legend between the inner and outer beaded borders reads ANNO DOMINI MDCXXIV ES DEO ET PATRIAE, incorporating the date 1624. |
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Frederick Ulrich's reign over Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was, by most measures, a disaster — internal administrative failures compounded by the catastrophic pressures of the Thirty Years' War bearing down on Lower Saxony through the 1620s. The Löser, a distinctly north German tradition of striking massive presentation-grade multiples far too heavy for practical commerce, gave territorial princes a useful tool: a showpiece that demonstrated fiscal credibility precisely when actual fiscal credibility was collapsing.
The 3-Thaler Löser of 1624 falls in the thick of the war's Lower Saxon Phase, a year before Danish intervention further destabilized the region. These pieces circulated almost exclusively as gifts and diplomatic tokens rather than trade silver.