Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1705-RB thaler Dav-2116
This specimen was lot 30177 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2022), where it sold for $780. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Brunswick-Luneburg: Brunswick. Taler, 1705-RB. Zellerfeld Mint. Anton Ulrich. PCGS AU-55. Barely handled and tremendously wholesome, this elegant crown offers a solid strike and charming detail, all while a bit of brilliance emanates from the protected areas around the devices. From the Robert C. Knepper Collection." 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 1705-11 and is somewhat scarce. Other thalers, including Dav-2115, a wild man thaler with the motto LABORE ET CONSTANTIA, Dav-2115A, another wild man thaler with the motto CONSTANTER, and Dav-2932, for the duke's visit to the mint, were also struck in 1705.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM-686.1; Welter-2303, Dav-2116.
- Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1965.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 ANA Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring The Salton Collection Part III, the Augustana Collection and the Robert C. Knepper Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
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- 1704-RB thaler, wild man reverse
- 1704-HCH thaler, on the death of Rudolf August, Brunswick mint
- 1704-RB thaler, on the death of Rudolf August, Zellerfeld mint
- 1704-RB thaler, wild man reverse, "LABORE ET CONSTANTIA", Anton Ulrich
- 1704 thaler, death of the duke's wife
- 1705 6 mariengroschen, wild man reverse
- 1705 24 mariengroschen, wild man obverse
- 1705 24 mariengroschen, wild man reverse
- 1705-RB thaler, wild man, "LABORE ET CONSTANTIA"
- 1705 1½ thaler, on the visit of the duke to the mint
- 1706 4 mariengroschen, wild man reverse
- 1706-HCH ⅔ thaler, leaping stallion
- 1706-HCH thaler, bust obverse
- 1706-RB thaler, wild man reverse
- Coins and currency dated 1705