5 Thalers - George IV Harz Ausbeute

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.