Bavaria 1789 1/2 thaler
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This specimen was lot 3567 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €120 (about US$157 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BAYERN, HERZOGTUM, SEIT 1623 KURFÜRSTENTUM, SEIT 1806 KÖNIGREICH: Karl Theodor, 1777-1799. 1/2 Konv.-Taler 1789, München. Fast vorzüglich. (Germany, electorate of Bavaria, Charles Theodore, 1777-99, half convention thaler of 1789, Munich mint, about extremely fine.)"
This type was struck 1778-81 and 1784-93. It is not rare but it is scarcer than the half thalers of his predecessor Maximilian Joseph.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 14.03 g, 0.833 fine silver, this specimen 13.93 g.
Catalog reference: KM 558, Hahn 344.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [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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