Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1752-IBH thaler Dav-2166

Stack's Bowers 2015 NYINC sale, lot 627

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 627 in Stacks-Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2015), where it sold for $2,115. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel. Taler, 1752. Karl I (1735-80). NGC MS-63. Finest certified. Commemorating the Rainbow Mine. Very attractive iridescent toning with golden highlights. From the Rockaway Collection." This is one of a series of mining thalers issued in the mid eighteenth century.

Recorded mintage: unknown but scarce.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: Dav-2166; KM-945.

Source:

• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, The January 2015 NYINC Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, Featuring the John W. Adams and Ray Czabor Collections, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2014.
• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1965.

Link to:

• 1748 "Rainbow" mining thaler
• 1750-IBH quarter thaler, wild man
• 1750-IBH 24 mariengroschen
• 1750-IBH thaler, wild man
• 1750 2½ thaler
• 1750 5 thaler
• 1752-IBH mining thaler, "White Swan"
• 1752-IBH mining thaler, "Cronenburg's Luck"
• 1752-IBH mining thaler, "Lauthenthal's Luck"
• 1752-IBH mining thaler, "Goodness of the Lord"
• 1752-IBH thaler, Bleifeld mine
• 1752-IBH thaler, king Karl mine
• Coins and currency dated 1752
• return to coins of German States, Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel