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⅙ Thaler - George III ⅙ Ausbeutetaler
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg-Hannover |
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| Year | 1761-1790 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | GEORGIVS III D.G.M. BRIT. FR. & HIR. REX F.D. |
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These fractional thalers were struck from silver raised by the Rammelsberg and Clausthal mines in the Harz — the "Ausbeute" designation marking them explicitly as mine-yield coinage, a tradition in Brunswick-Lüneburg that tied the coin's very existence to the profitability of specific extraction operations. A poor mining season could interrupt the series entirely.
The thirty-year span across George III's reign coincides almost exactly with the period of British subsidy politics in Hanover, when the electorate's finances were perpetually entangled with Westminster's war expenditures — particularly during the Seven Years' War's aftermath and the American Revolutionary period.