Anhalt-Bernburg 1760 1/24 thaler

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Stephen Album sale 32, lot 1123
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This specimen was lot 1123 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $117.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "ANHALT-BERNBURG: Viktor II Friedrich, 1721-1765, AR 1/24 thaler, 1760, PCGS graded MS63, ex Don Erickson Collection." Thalers from eighteenth century Anhalt are very rare so collectors make do with the minors. This type was struck 1759-61 and is the last of the denomination.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, fineness unknown.

Catalog reference: KM-48.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.

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