Brunswick-Luneburg-Celle 1625-HZ 5 thaler Dav-LS117

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Künker sale 400, lot 19

This specimen was lot 19 in Künker sale 400 (Berlin, February 2024), where it sold for €55,000 (about US$71,352 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"BRAUNSCHWEIG UND LÜNEBURG, BRAUNSCHWEIG-LÜNEBURG, Christian, Bischof von Minden, 1611-1633. Löser zu 5 Reichstalern 1625, Münzstätte vermutlich Clausthal. Ohne Wertpunze; Mit Stempelschneidersignatur H - Z. CHRISTIANUS · D : G : ELECT9 EPISC : MIND : DUX · BRUNSVIC : ET · LUNEB (zwei Rosetten übereinander) :* Geharnischtes Kniebild halbr. mit umgelegter Feldbinde, in der Rechten Kommandostab, die Linke am Schwertgriff, r. Tisch, darauf Helm auf Handschuhen//* IUSTITIA * ET * CONCORDIA * ANNO * DOMINI * M * DC * XXV Zwei Löwen halten das fünffach behelmte, neunfeldige Wappen mit Mindener Mittelschild, zu den Seiten je ein aufrecht stehender Löwe als Schildhalter. Von größter Seltenheit. Sehr attraktives Exemplar mit feiner Patina, winz. Randfehler, vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Fritz Rudolf Künker 254, Osnabrück 2014, Nr. 3175. (Germany, duchy of Brunswick-Luneburg-Celle, Christian as bishop of Minden, 1611-33, five thaler of 1625, perhaps Clausthal mint, without value punched in. Obverse: armored three-quarter portrait with sash and baton, left hand on sword hilt, to the right, a table with helmet and gloves; reverse: two lions support the five helmeted nine-fold arms with the Minden escutcheon. Extremely rare, very attractive example with fine patina, minor edge bumps, extremely fine.)"

The bishopric of Minden was established in Carolingian times but was converted to Lutheranism in 1554. Christian was the younger brother of the duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle and was bishop 1599-1625 and duke 1611-33 and attempted to keep the Thirty Years War away from his domain. He was succeeded in Minden by Francis of Wartenberg, a Catholic, but the Treaty of Westphalia converted the diocese to a secular principality and awarded it in 1648 to the elector of Brandenburg. His younger brother, Augustus, erstwhile bishop of Ratzeburg, succeeded to the new duchy. The Hohenzollerns continued to operate the mint at Minden but those issues are collected as part of the Brandenburg and Prussian series. This massive coin is mentioned but not priced in the SCWC with initials "NZ" instead of "HZ" shown here.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 144,64 g.

Catalog reference: KM 82; Dav-LS117; Duve 1; Welter 912; Preussag Collection (Auktion London Coin Galleries/Künker 1) 117.

Source:

  • 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., Large Size Silver Coins of the World, 16th-19th Centuries, 3rd Ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1991.
  • [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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