Austria 1559 guldiner Dav-8025
This specimen was lot 4617 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €360 (about US$471 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"RÖMISCH-DEUTSCHES REICH. Ferdinand I. 1522-1558-1564. Reichsguldiner (72 Kreuzer) 1559, Klagenfurt. Kl. Korrosionsstellen, sehr schön. (Holy Roman Empire, Ferdinand I, 1558-64, guldiner of 72 kreuzer of 1559, Klagenfurt mint. Some areas of corrosion, very fine.)"
This type was also minted in 1560. These first generation guldiner were equal to thalers. Later in the sixteenth century, the gulden would slip to 5/6 of a thaler and then to two-thirds of a thaler in the seventeenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 30.42 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-8025; Voglh. 52 II var.
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- [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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