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⅙ Thaler - George III
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg-Hannover |
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| Year | 1807 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of George III facing right, with naturalistically rendered hair falling in curls beneath the wreath. The encircling legend reads GEORGIUS III D.G. BRITANNIARUM REX F.D. in Latin script. Below the truncation, a small oval mint mark is visible in the field. The denomination indicator G 1/6 M. appears at the base of the bust, and the overall engraving style reflects the refined neoclassical portraiture typical of early nineteenth-century German coinage. |
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| Edge | Milled. |
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By 1807, George III held the Hanoverian electorate in name only. Napoleon had abolished the Electorate of Hanover in 1806 and folded most of its territory into the new Kingdom of Westphalia under Jérôme Bonaparte, making this issue effectively a relic coinage struck for a polity that had ceased to function as a sovereign entity. Production continued at Clausthal under increasingly disrupted conditions.