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5 Thalers - George IV Harz Ausbeute
| Issuer | Hannover, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1821 |
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| Composition | Gold (.903) |
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| Reverse lettering | BRUNSVICENSIS ET LUNEBURGENSIS DUX V THALER 1821 C |
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| Mint | Clausthal Mint |
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The "Harz Ausbeute" designation marks this as a mining yield coin — struck specifically from gold extracted from the Harz mountain mines, which the Hanoverian crown had exploited for centuries under a system of royal mining rights. George IV had acceded to the British throne the previous year, making his Hanoverian kingship a personal union title he held with conspicuous disinterest; the Harz mining issues were nonetheless politically useful assertions of sovereign income from a territory he never once visited.
Mintages for Ausbeute gold were kept deliberately small, tied directly to actual mine output rather than monetary demand.