Brunswick-Luneburg-Celle 1625-HS thaler Dav-6464

Stephen Album sale 32, lot 1153

This specimen was lot 1153 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $199.75. The catalog description^[1] noted, "BRUNSWICK-LÜNEBURG-CELLE: Christian, 1599-1633, AR thaler, Clausthal mint, 1625, Fine to VF." The SCWC lists a dozen variations on this thaler (KM 29.3 thru KM 29.16) for 1624-29, all fairly common. This one year type is no exception. The duchy of Brunswick-Luneburg-Celle fell extinct in 1705 and passed to Hannover. The Duchy of Brunswick was divided and subdivided in the seventeenth century but was eventually reassembled as the Kingdom of Hannover before being absorbed into Prussia in 1866.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM-29.7, Dav-6464.

Source:

• 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]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.

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