Frankfurt 1762-IOT 1/2 thaler
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This specimen was lot 2923 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $228. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Free City, AR 1/2 thaler, 1762, once lightly cleaned, VF-XF, ex Joe Sedillot Collection." While Frankfurter coinage was intermittent in the eighteenth century, the year 1762 saw the issue of ten kreuzer, twenty kreuzer, thirty kreuzer, half thaler (shown here), thaler and ducat. This type was struck again in 1764.
Recorded mintage: unknown but scarce.
Specification: 14.03 g, 0.833 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-220.2, Cr-66.
- 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 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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