Basel 1564 1/2 guldenthaler
This specimen was lot 4031 in Sincona sale 95 (Zürich, October 2024), where it sold for 5,000 CHF (about US$6,930 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SCHWEIZ Basel, Stadt und Kanton, Halber Guldentaler 1564, Basel. Sehr seltener Jahrgang. Sehr schön. Leicht gereinigt und bearbeitet. Exemplar der Slg. Zuberbühler, Auktion SINCONA 16, Zürich, Oktober 2013, Los 5119. (Switzerland, canton of Basel, half gulden thaler of 1564, Basel mint. Very Fine, Lightly cleaned and tooled.)"
This type was struck 1564 only. Tho marked thirty kreuzer, it is universally catalogued as a half guldenthaler. Later, in the seventeenth century, the thaler rose to ninety kreuzer, making the gulden (the "thaler" part of the name was dropped) two-thirds of a thaler.
Record mintage: unknown.
Specification: 12 g, silver, 33 mm diameter, this specimen 11.99 g.
Catalog reference: Winterstein (Taler) 404, HMZ 2-62b.
- Richter, Jürg, and Ruedi Kunzmann, Neuer HMZ-Katalog, Band 2: Die Münzen der Schweiz und Liechtensteins 15//16. Jahrhundert bis Gegenwart, Regenstauf, Germany: H. Gietl Verlag GmbH, 2006.
- Winterstein, Christian, Die Taler Von Basel, Basel: Schweizerischer Bankverein Basel, 1983.
- [1]Richter, Jürg, SINCONA Auction 95: The Konrad Bürki Collection - Part 2 (Swiss Cantonal Coins), Zürich: SINCONA AG, 2024.
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