Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1708-RB thaler Dav-2116

Stack's Bowers 2023 NYINC sale, lot 41280

This specimen was lot 41280 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2023), where it sold for $216. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Brunswick-Luneburg: Brunswick. Taler, 1708-RB. Zellerfeld Mint. Anton Ulrich. PCGS Genuine--Graffiti, AU Details. 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.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: Dav-2116; KM-686.1; Welter-2303.

Source:

• 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 January 2023 NYINC Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Taraszka Collection and the Mark and Dottie Salton Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

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