Freiburg 1571 guldenthaler
This specimen was lot 2166 in Künker Auction 425 (Osnabrück, July 2025), where it sold for €1,500 (about US$2,124 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"DEUTSCHE MÜNZEN UND MEDAILLEN · FREIBURG, STADT Guldentaler (60 Kreuzer) 1571, mit Titel Ferdinands I. RR Sehr schön. (Germany, city of Freiburg, guldenthaler or sixty kreuzer of 1571, struck in the name of Ferdinand I. Very rare, very fine.)"
Freiburg, north of Basel and east of the Rhine, was the chief town of the Austrian province of Breisgau. In 1803, Napoleon handed it over to his ally, the grand duke of Baden, whose possession it remained until the collapse of the Wilhelmine empire in 1918. This rare type was struck 1567-73. The gulden and thaler were originally both sixty kreuzer; by the 1571, the thaler had risen to 72 kreuzer.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: silver, this specimen 24,14 g.
Catalog reference: KM MB34, Berstett 183; Dav-31.
- Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
- Nicol, N. Douglas, Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of German Coins, 1501-Present, 3rd ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 425: Gold coins from the Medieval and Modern Times, from the Mohr family collection, e.g. | Silver coins, e.g. highlights of medallic art | German coins after 1871, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2025.
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