Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1730-IHT 1/8 thaler

Stephen Album sale 43, lot 2245

This specimen was lot 2245 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $132. The catalog description^[1] noted, "BRUNSWICK-WOLFENBÜTTEL: August Wilhelm, 1714-1731, AR 1/8 thaler, 1730, initials IHT, 200th Anniversary of Augsburg Confession, VF-EF, ex SARC Auction 26, Lot 1152." The denomination was not regularly issued by this state, which more commonly struck one-twelfth or one-sixth thalers. A few one-eighth thalers with the wild man reverse were made in the 1720's and this one with the "leaping stallion" reverse from 1730 only. No more were made thereafter.

Recorded mintage: unknown but scarce.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM-796.

Source:

• Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 43, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.

Link to:

• 1715-HH "wild man" ⅛ thaler
• 1727 "leaping stallion" ⅓ thaler
• 1727 "leaping stallion" thaler
• 1729 ducat
• 1730-EPH 2 mariengroschen, wild man reverse
• 1730-EPH 24 mariengroschen, wild man reverse
• 1730-EPH thaler, wild man reverse
• 1730-IHT thaler, on the bicentennial of the Augsburg Confession
• 1731-IHT thaler, on the death of Augustus William
• Coins and currency dated 1730