Freising (1790) thaler Dav-2249
This specimen was lot 3894 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,200 (about US$1,570 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"FREISING, BISTUM, Josef Konrad von Schroffenberg, 1790-1803. Konv.-Taler o. J. (1790), Regensburg. Vorzüglich. (Germany, bishopric of Freising, Joseph Conrad of Schroffenberg, 1790-1803, undated convention thaler, Regensburg mint. Extremely fine.)"
This is one of three thalers issued by the bishops of Freising in the eighteenth century. Another issued in 1790 (Dav-2248) bears the date. Freising, another postage stamp state, lay on the Isar river downstream of Munich and was entirely surrounded by Bavaria. The bulk was annexed to Bavaria in 1802 during the Napoleonic mediatization.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 28.06 g, 0.833 fine silver, this specimen 28.04 g.
Catalog reference: KM 33, Dav-2249; Sellier 94.
- 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.
- [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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