Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1768-IAP 12 mariengroschen

Stack's Bowers February 2023 Collector's Choice sale, lot 73261

This specimen was lot 73261 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2023), where it sold for $192. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Brunswick-Luneburg: Brunswick. 12 Mariengroschen, 1768-IAP. Zellerfeld Mint. Karl I. PCGS AU-58. Featuring one of the more well-proportioned wildmen that this cataloger has seen, the present specimen is a decided cut above that which is generally encountered in this popular series, with the engraver skillfully capturing actual human characteristics, and on a smaller, minor-sized planchet no less. From the Robert C. Knepper Collection." This denomination was one-third of a thaler or one half gulden. This type was struck 1735-80 and is common. Mintmaster IAP appears 1763-72. About this time, the convention thaler was adopted, which acknowledged that the gulden was now half a thaler instead of the former two-thirds.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM-867; Welter-2742.

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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2023 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the David Sterling Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.

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Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1768-IAP 12 mariengroschen

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