Brunswick-Luneburg-Celle 1626-HS thaler Dav-6469
This specimen was lot 754 in Aureo sale 261 (Barcelona, July 2014), where it sold for €390 (about US$626 with buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"1626. Alemania. Brunswick-Luneburg-Celle. Cristian. 1 taler. Atractiva. Rara. EBC-. (Germany, duchy of Brunswick-Luneburg-Celle, Christian, silver thaler of 1626. Attractive, rare, almost 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 duchy. The Hohenzollerns continued to operate the mint at Minden but those issues are collected as part of the Brandenburg and Prussian series. The SCWC lists a dozen variations on this thaler (KM 29.3 thru KM 29.16) for 1624-29, all fairly common. Brunswick-Luneburg-Celle lapsed in 1705 on the death of the last duke and was merged with Brunswick-Luneburg-Calenberg-Hannover.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM 29.12. Dav-6469.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Davenport, John S., German Secular Talers, 1600-1700, Frankfurt: Numismatischer Verlag, 1976.
- [1]Sisó, Teresa, Eduardo Domingo and Lluís Lalana, Subasta Pública 261, Barcelona: Aureo y Calicó Subastas, 2014.
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