Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1697-RB thaler Dav-6389
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This specimen was lot 74791 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $660. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Brunswick-Luneburg: Brunswick. Taler, 1697-RB. Rudolph August & Anton Ulrich. PCGS AU-53. An attractive and wholesome example with a rich russet toning. Ex: Knepper Collection (Stacks 1/2023) Lot # 41273." This is another in the long series of "wild man" thalers struck in Brunswick-Luneburg and Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This one is recorded for 1691-99 and is common.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: Dav-6389A; KM-593; Welter-2069.
- 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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, May 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction: Ancient & World Coins, featuring selections from the Sydney F. Martin Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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