Brunswick-Luneburg-Celle 1640-HS thaler Dav-6494

from the Stack's Bowers 2024 ANA sale, lot 46038

This specimen was lot 46038 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2024), where it sold for $240. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Brunswick-Luneburg: Calenberg & Luneburg (Celle). Taler, 1640-HS. Clausthal Mint. Friedrich IV. PCGS Genuine--Tooled, EF Details." 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. This type of 1637-43 is common. It is unusual in having the legends in German and blackletter script.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: Dav-6494; KM-146.2; Welter-1414.

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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, August 2024 Global Showcase Auction, World & Ancient Coins, featuring The Emilio M. Ortiz Collection, The Richard Margolis Collection and The Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

Link to:

• 1639-HS thaler, bust obverse, "HS" below date
• Brunswick-Luneburg-Calenberg 1640-HS thaler, bust obverse
• Brunswick-Luneburg-Calenberg 1640-HS thaler, wild man reverse
• (1640-48)-LW 1/8 thaler
• 1641-LW thaler
• Coins and currency dated 1640