Austria 1562 guldenthaler Dav-33
This specimen was lot 30 in Künker Auction 423 (Osnabrück, July 2025), where it sold for €650 (about US$921 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"HABSBURGISCHE ERBLANDE-ÖSTERREICH · RÖMISCH-DEUTSCHES REICH, Ferdinand I., 1522-1558-1564. Guldentaler (60 Kreuzer) 1562, Hall. Gekröntes und geharnischtes Brustbild r., mit der Rechten das Zepter schulternd, in der Linken Reichsapfel, darin die Wertzahl 60//Gekrönter Doppeladler mit Kopfscheinen, auf der Brust vierfeldiges Wappen (Ungarn/Böhmen), mit Mittelschild (Tirol). Sehr schön-vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Fritz Rudolf Künker 105, Osnabrück 2005, Nr. 2688. (Holy Roman Empire, Ferdinand I, 1522-1558-1564, guldenthaler or sixty kreuzer of 1562, 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 fine to extremely fine.)"
This type was struck 1560-64 at Vienna, Hall (shown here), Klagenfurt, Kuttenberg, Prague, Joachimsthal 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: 24.3 g, silver, 38-39 mm diameter, this specimen 24,28 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-33; M./T. 140; Voglh. 57.
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- 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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