Bavaria 1694 thaler Dav-6100
This specimen was lot 3466 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €460 (about US$602 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BAYERN, HERZOGTUM, SEIT 1623 KURFÜRSTENTUM, SEIT 1806 KÖNIGREICH: Maximilian II. Emanuel, 1679-1726. Reichstaler 1694, München. Madonna schaut nach l. Feine Patina, vorzüglich. (Germany, electorate of Bavaria, Maximilian II, 1679-1726, thaler of 1694, Munich mint, Madonna facing left. Fine patina, extremely fine.)"
This one year type is only one in a long succession of "Madonna" thalers issued by Bavaria in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Altho not cheap in this grade, this issue is not rare by the standards of German states coinage.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 29.17 g.
Catalog reference: KM 365.1, Dav-6100; Hahn 199 var.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., German Secular Talers, 1600-1700, Frankfurt: Numismatischer Verlag, 1976.
- [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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