Brandenburg-Ansbach 1778-G WK thaler Dav-2016

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Stack's Bowers 2015 NYINC sale, lot 3636
photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 3636 in Stacks-Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2015), where it sold for $552.25. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Brandenburg-Ansbach. Taler, 1778. Alexander I (1757-91). NGC AU-58. Attractive toning with underlying luster. From the Rockaway Collection." This type was issued 1779 only (one of five different thalers issued that year) and is listed as scarce. It comes not from the Electorate of Brandenburg (later the Kingdom of Prussia) but from Brandenburg-Ansbach, a Hohenzollern enclave west of Bavaria and neighboring Nuremburg.

Recorded mintage: unknown but scarce.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: Dav-2016; KM-307.

Source:

  • [1]Ponterio, Richard, The January 2015 NYINC Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, Featuring the John W. Adams and Ray Czabor Collections, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2014.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1965.

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