Augsburg 1573 1/2 guldenthaler
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This specimen was lot 3361 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €6,000 (about US$7,852 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"AUGSBURG, STADT, 1/2 Guldentaler (30 Kreuzer) 1573, mit Titel Maximilians II. Sehr selten, besonders in dieser Erhaltung. Prachtexemplar. Herrliche Patina, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (Germany, city of Augsburg, half gulden thaler of 1573, in the name of Maximilian II. Very rare, especially in this quality. Handsome patina, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"
This issue accompanied a gulden thaler of the same date.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 12,19 g.
Catalog reference: Forster 78.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
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