⅙ Thaler - George III ⅙ Ausbeutetaler

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.