Austria 1573 guldenthaler

Stack's Bowers November 2022 Collectors Choice sale, lot 74314

This specimen was lot 74314 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, November 2022), where it sold for $576. The catalog description^[1] noted, "AUSTRIA. Gulden Taler, 1573. Hall Mint. Archduke Ferdinand. PCGS AU-58. Valued at 60 Kreuzer, (a full size Taler would have been valued at 72 Kreuzer). The Gulden Taler is actually scarcer than the full sized Taler and is seen only infrequently." By 1600, the gulden had slipped from 5/6 thaler to 2/3 thaler, where it remained until the mid-eighteenth century.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 24.6 g, 0.931 fine silver.

Catalog reference: Dav-52.

Source:

• 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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The November 2022 Collectors Choice Ancient & World Coins Auction, Featuring the Pat Johnson Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

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