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5 Thalers - Christian Louis Harz - Ausbeute - Löser
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle |
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| Year | 1657 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | CL |
| Edge | Plain |
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Ausbeute coinages — struck directly from mine-yield silver as a formal presentation of that yield to the ruling duke — were a specifically Lower Saxon tradition, and the Harz mines producing this metal were among the most productive in seventeenth-century Europe. Christian Louis received these ceremonial multiples as much as political instruments: gifted to allies, displayed at court, and occasionally melted when cash was needed. Few were ever intended to circulate.
At five thalers' weight, this Löser sits at the more accessible end of the denomination range — Harz Ausbeute pieces were struck up to ten and even twenty thalers' weight in exceptional years. The Müseler reference places this squarely in the documented sequence for Zellerfeld output under Christian Louis's tenure before his death in 1665.