⅓ Thaler - George I

By 1705, George I — then still Elector of Hanover — was already the designated heir to the British throne under the Act of Settlement of 1701, which had bypassed over fifty closer Catholic claimants to secure a Protestant succession. He would not actually reach London until 1714, following Anne's death. Coins struck in these intervening years occupy an odd transitional moment: issued by a German principality, yet bearing the portrait of a man already promised to another crown.

The one-third thaler denomination was peculiar to the northern German states and saw little use outside regional trade circuits.