Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1854-B thaler Dav-634
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This specimen was lot 3804 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €420 (about US$550 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BRAUNSCHWEIG UND LÜNEBURG, BRAUNSCHWEIG-WOLFENBÜTTEL, Wilhelm, 1831-1884. Taler 1854, B. Vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (Germany, duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, William, 1831-84, thaler of 1854, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"
This type was struck 1853-55 to the Prussian standard (22.27 g, 0.750 fine silver). Subsequent issues were vereinsthalers.
Recorded mintage: 97,320.
Specification: 22.27 g, 0.750 fine silver, this specimen 22.23 g.
Catalog reference: KM 1146, Dav-634; AKS 80; Kahnt 154; Thun 121.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns and Talers, Since 1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1964.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [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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