Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1737-BID 2/3 thaler KM-903

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Künker sale 335, lot 3803

This specimen was lot 3803 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €600 (about US$785 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"BRAUNSCHWEIG UND LÜNEBURG, BRAUNSCHWEIG-WOLFENBÜTTEL, Karl I. 1735-1780. 2/3 Taler 1737, Braunschweig. R Vorzüglich. (Germany, duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Charles I, 1735-80, two-thirds thaler of 1737, Brunswick mint. Scarce, extremely fine.)"

This type was issued simultaneously with a gulden that did not bear a value on the reverse (KM 898). Both are scarce. No more gulden would be issued until 1764, when a common type (KM 973.1) was minted.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 13.68 g, the weight of 4/9 thaler.

Catalog reference: KM 903, Dav-361; Welter 2731.

Source:

  • Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.

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