Brunswick-Luneburg-Celle 1619 1/4 thaler
This specimen was lot 3810 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €300 (about US$393 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BRAUNSCHWEIG UND LÜNEBURG, BRAUNSCHWEIG-LÜNEBURG, Christian, Bischof von Minden, 1611-1633. 1/4 Reichstaler 1619, Clausthal. Zwitterprägung mit Münzzeichen abnehmender Mond auf der Vorderseite und Münzzeichen zunehmender Mond auf der Rückseite. In US-Plastikholder der NGC mit der Bewertung AU 53. R Sehr schön-vorzüglich. (Germany, bishopric of Minden, Christian, 1611-33, quarter thaler of 1619, Clausthal mint. Mule with a crescent moon on the obverse and on the reverse. NGC AU-53. Scarce, very fine to extremely fine.)"
This one year type accompanied a thaler (Dav-6435). It is not priced in the SCWC. The duchy of Brunswick-Luneburg-Celle lapsed in 1705 and passed to Hannover.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM 16, Welter 939.
- 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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