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6 Thalers - Christian Louis Harz - Ausbeute - Löser
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle |
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| Year | 1660 |
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| Value | 6 Thalers |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Christian Ludwig's Ausbeute ("yield") issues were struck directly from silver extracted at the Harz mining operations, a practice that served both as a financial instrument and a pointed political advertisement of ducal control over the region's mineral wealth. The Löser format — these large, multi-thaler presentation pieces — was never intended for commerce. They circulated among courts and treasuries as diplomatic gifts and were occasionally used to settle debts between princes at face value, a fiction everyone politely maintained.
The Welter 1482 designation places this among the scarcer die marriages of the 1660 Harz series. Survivors in problem-free condition are thin on the ground; the format's sheer mass made these vulnerable to later melting when silver was needed.