Bremen 1635-TI thaler Dav-5096
This specimen was lot 827 in Künker sale 263 (Osnabrück, June 2015), where it sold for €2,000 (about US$2,584 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Bremen, STADT Reichstaler 1635, mit Titel Ferdinands II. R Hübsche Patina, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (Germany, city of Bremen, thaler of 1635, in the name of Ferdinand II. Scarce, nice patina, very fine to extremely fine.)"
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 type is scarce, verging on rare.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: Dav-5096; Jungk 474, KM 91.3.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 263, The Friedrich Popken collection of gold and silver coinages | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the collection of Ernst Otto Horn, part III, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2015.
- 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.
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