⅔ Thaler - George III

Brunswick-Lüneburg's 2/3 Thaler denomination was a north German convention piece, struck to the Reichstaler-⅔ standard that dominated regional commerce for well over a century. By 1801, George III held the Hanoverian electorate in personal union with the British crown — a constitutional oddity that left Hanover effectively ungoverned from London, administered instead by a Regency Council in Calenberg. Napoleon dissolved that arrangement by force in 1803 when French troops occupied Hanover, suspending the electorate's independent coinage. Pieces struck in the final two years of this series, 1804–1805, were produced under occupation-era disruption.