Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1686 24 mariengroschen
This specimen was lot 73241 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2023), where it sold for $288. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Brunswick-Luneburg: Brunswick. 24 Mariengroschen, 1686. Zellerfeld Mint. Rudolph August & Anton Ulrich. PCGS AU-58. At the precipice of Mint State status, this refined example yields s great representative of the wildman motif--an ever-popular collecting focus on account of its varied depictions of the hermetic forest-dweller. From the Robert C. Knepper Collection." This issue of 1685-1704 was the fourth 24 mariengroschen for this state. Equal to two-thirds thaler, it was struck steadily until 1834. No mintmaster appears on this coin. The wild man is the most common design but a few were issued with the leaping stallion reverse (KM 586, 615, 868, 895, 1012, 1033).
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM-559; Welter-2079.
- 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., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2023 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the David Sterling Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.
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- 1685 24 mariengroschen, Rudolph August and Anton Ulrich, wild man reverse
- 1685 thaler, wild man reverse, Rudolf August
- 1685 thaler, wild man reverse, Rudolf and Anton
- 1686-RB thaler, two wild men, date at bottom
- 1686-RB thaler, two wild men, date in middle
- 1686 double thaler
- 1690 24 mariengroschen, wild man reverse
- 1692-HCH 24 mariengroschen, "leaping stallion"
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