Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1710-RB thaler Dav-2116
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This specimen was lot 41281 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2023), where it sold for $528. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Brunswick-Luneburg: Brunswick. Taler, 1710-RB. Zellerfeld Mint. Anton Ulrich. PCGS AU-55. 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. Another, much scarcer, thaler struck in 1710 featured the duke's portrait (Dav-2120).
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: Dav-2116; KM-686.1; Welter-2303.
- 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.
Link to:
- 1707 double ducat
- 1709 12 mariengroschen, wild man reverse
- 1709-RB thaler, wild man reverse
- 1710 24 mariengroschen, wild man reverse
- (1710) 1½ thaler, on the duke's conversion to Catholicism
- 1710 ducat, for the mines
- 1711 24 mariengroschen, wild man reverse
- 1711-RB thaler, wild man reverse
- Coins and currency dated 1710