Brandenburg 1636-DK thaler Dav-6151
This specimen was lot 3719 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,600 (about US$2,094 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BRANDENBURG-PREUSSEN, BRANDENBURG, MARKGRAFSCHAFT, SEIT DEM 14. JAHRHUNDERT KURFÜRSTENTUM, Georg Wilhelm, 1619-1640. Reichstaler 1636, DK, Königsberg. Hübsche Patina, sehr schön. (Germany, electorate of Brandenburg, George William, 1619-40, thaler of 1636, Königsberg mint. Handsome patina, very fine.)"
This type of 1635-36 is scarce, like most Brandenburger thalers of the seventeenth century. George William spent most of his reign in Königsberg in Prussia. His subjects, left to the mercies of the pillaging armies of the Thirty Years War, were likely not grateful.
Recorded mintage: 5,556.
Specification: silver, this specimen 28.50 g.
Catalog reference: KM 156, Dav-6151; Marienb. 1523; Olding 23 b.
- 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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