Austria 1561 1/2 guldenthaler

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Künker sale 423, lot 31

This specimen was lot 31 in Künker Auction 423 (Osnabrück, July 2025), where it sold for €1,500 (about US$2,124 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"HABSBURGISCHE ERBLANDE-ÖSTERREICH · RÖMISCH-DEUTSCHES REICH, Ferdinand I., 1522-1558-1564. 1/2 Guldentaler (30 Kreuzer) 1561, Hall. Gekröntes und geharnischtes Brustbild r., mit der Rechten das Zepter schulternd, in der Linken Reichsapfel, darin die Wertzahl 30//Gekrönter Doppeladler mit Kopfscheinen, auf der Brust vierfeldiges Wappen (Ungarn/Böhmen), mit Mittelschild (Tirol). RR Sehr schön-vorzüglich. Exemplar der Slg. Nicolaus Morosini, Auktion Brüder Egger 44, Wien 1913, Nr. 226 und der Auktion Leu 80, Zürich 2001, Nr. 661. (Holy Roman Empire, Ferdinand I, 1522-1558-1564, half guldenthaler or thirty kreuzer of 1561, Hall mint. Obverse: crowned and armored half-length bust right, holding a scepter and orb with the value; reverse: crowned double-headed eagle with halo, supporting the quartered arms of Hungary and Bohemia with the escutcheon of Tyrol. Very rare, very fine to extremely fine.)"

This type was struck 1561-63 at Hall and elsewhere. During this decade, the gulden and thaler diverged; the gulden remained sixty kreuzer while the thaler rose to 72 kreuzer.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 11.9 g, silver, 33 mm diameter, this specimen 12,31 g.

Catalog reference: Markl 1749; M./T. 144.

Source:

  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
  • Heinz Moser and Heinz Tursky, Die Munzstatte Hall in Tirol, 2 vols. Innsbruck: Verlag Dr Rudolf Erhad, 1981.
  • [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 423: Coins and medals from Tyrol - The collection of Dipl.-Ing. Hermann Wohnlich., Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2025.

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