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| Issuer | Kingdom of Hannover |
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| Year | 1841 |
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| Value | ⅙ Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1/6 THALER 1841 S |
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Ernest August, Duke of Cumberland, took the Hanoverian throne in 1837 only because Hanover operated under Salic Law — barring female succession — which severed its 123-year personal union with Britain the moment Victoria ascended to the Crown. His reign opened with immediate constitutional crisis: he unilaterally revoked the liberal constitution of 1833, triggering the famous protest of the Göttingen Seven, a group of professors that included the Brothers Grimm. The fractional thaler series issued under his name carries that political weight, struck for a kingdom whose king arrived under deeply contested circumstances.