Augsburg 1573 guldenthaler
This specimen was lot 3360 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,600 (about US$2,094 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"AUGSBURG, STADT, Guldentaler (60 Kreuzer) 1573, mit Titel Maximilians II. Selten, besonders in dieser Erhaltung. Scharf ausgeprägtes Exemplar mit feiner Patina, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (Germany, city of Augsburg, gulden thaler of 1573, in the name of Maximilian II. Rare, especially in this quality. Sharply struck with fine patina, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"
At this point, the gulden was about 5/6 of a thaler. In the next century, it would decline to 2/3 of a thaler and was struck in that format in large numbers by many states. This type was accompanied by a half gulden thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 24,51 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-10003; Forster 77.
- Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1500-1600, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1979.
- Nicol, N. Douglas, Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of German Coins, 1501-Present, 3rd ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
- 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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