Bremen 1650-TI 1/2 thaler
This specimen was lot 3852 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €2,200 (about US$2,879 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BREMEN, STADT. 1/2 Reichstaler 1650, mit Titel Ferdinands III. Von großer Seltenheit. Hübsche Patina, sehr schön. (Germany, city of Bremen, half thaler of 1650, in the name of Ferdinand III. Very rare, handsome patina, very fine.)"
This is one of a series of rare issues (KM 51, KM 107, 115, 134, 136, 137) made in the seventeenth century. In Bremen, 72 grote = one thaler. 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.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 14,25 g.
Catalog reference: KM 115, Jungk 523.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [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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