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⅑ Thaler - August William
| Issuer | Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Principality of |
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| Year | 1715 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1499-1814) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel's fractional thaler denominations from the early eighteenth century reflect the chronic small-change shortages plaguing the fragmented German states, where dozens of mints produced incompatible coinage and merchants routinely had to negotiate exchange rates for everyday transactions. The one-ninth thaler was a peculiarly inconvenient fraction, driven by the need to subdivide the reichsthaler into units compatible with both local groschen reckonings and broader imperial currency conventions.
August William ruled Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1714 until his death in 1731, a tenure largely overshadowed by the rising influence of his Hanoverian cousins following George I's accession to the British throne the same year this coin was struck.