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6 Mariengroschen - George Louis
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg-Hannover |
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| Year | 1710-1711 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a full-length figure of Saint Andrew facing the viewer, draped in flowing robes with arms outstretched and bound to the diagonal saltire cross behind him, a nimbus visible above his head. The saint stands upon a small base or ground line, rendered in a bold baroque engraving style typical of early eighteenth-century Brunswick coinage. The circumferential legend SANCTUS ANDREAS REVIVISCENS ('Saint Andrew reviving') encircles the design, separated from the inner field by a beaded border. A small star or rosette ornament appears at the base of the legend. The reverse design reflects the traditional Calenberg-Hannover heraldic and devotional iconography associated with the Mariengroschen series. |
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George Louis was Elector of Hanover in 1710–11, just a few years before the Act of Settlement brought him to the British throne as George I in 1714. The Mariengroschen — named for the Virgin Mary, a denomination with roots in the Harz mining economy — was workhorse coinage for the Calenberg-Hannover territory, struck from silver drawn largely from the productive mines at Clausthal.