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1703, Brunswick-Luneburg-Calenberg-Hannover, George Louis. Silver Gulden Coin, or “Wild Man
Thaler”
He was both Duke of Hanover and King of England; Mint Year: 1703, Mint Place: Zellerfeld,
Denomination: Gulden (24 Mariengroschen = 2/3 Thaler), Weight: 12.85gm, Diameter: 37mm
Material: Silver.
Obverse:Standing half-naked wildman (woodwose), bending a tree to his right. Value (24) to his left.
Tiny trees below, motto above. Legend: IN RECTO DECUS ("Honor in doing right!")
Reverse: Value (XXIIII) above denomination (MARIEN GROSCH) and fractional silver mark value
(V.FEIN.SILB) above privy mark (***). Legend: * GEORG : LUD : D : G : D : BR : & L : S : R : I : ELECT :
1701 .
George I (George Louis; German: Georg Ludwig; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain
and Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-
Lüneburg (Hanover) in the Holy Roman Empire from 1698.
George was born in Hanover, in what is now Germany, and inherited the titles and lands of the Duchy of
Brunswick-Lüneburg from his father and uncles. A succession of European wars expanded his German
domains during his lifetime, and in 1708 he was ratified as prince-elector of Hanover. At the age of 54,
after the death of Queen Anne of Great Britain, George ascended the British throne as the first monarch
of the House of Hanover. Although over fifty Roman Catholics bore closer blood relationships to Anne,
the Act of Settlement 1701 prohibited Catholics from inheriting the British throne. George, however,
was Anne’s closest living Protestant relative. In reaction, Jacobites attempted to depose George and
replace him with Anne’s Catholic half-brother, James Francis Edward Stuart, but their attempts failed.
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