Bremen 1621 thaler Dav-5086
This specimen was lot 120 in Künker sale 400 (Berlin, February 2024), where it sold for €8,500 (about US$11,027 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BREMEN, STADT, Reichstaler 1621, mit Titel Ferdinands II. Von großer Seltenheit. Sehr schön-vorzüglich. Mit altem Unterlagszettel. (Germany, city of Bremen, thaler of 1621, struck in the name of Ferdinand II. Extremely rare, very fine to extremely fine, with old collector's tag.)"
Most Bremen issues were emitted by the free city of Bremen, still today a major port on the North Sea coast of Germany. However, the hinterland formed the archbishopric of Bremen which persisted after the region converted to Lutheranism in the mid-1500's. Finally, as a consequence of the Thirty Years War, the state was secularized and handed over to the king of Sweden and ruled by him until 1719. This city thaler was struck 1621-22 and is very scarce.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 29,11 g.
Catalog reference: KM 76, Dav-5086; Jungk 455.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., German Church and City Talers, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1967.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 400: Selected löser of the Dukes of Guelph from the Friedrich Popken Collection | Numismatic treasures from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. "multiple portraits" from a Westphalian private collection, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.
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