Fugger-Babenhausen 1621 thaler Dav-6672
This specimen was lot 3900 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €5,500 (about US$7,197 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"FUGGER, FUGGER-BABENHAUSEN-WELLENBURG, GRAFSCHAFT. Maximilian II. 1598-1629. Reichstaler 1621, mit Titel Ferdinands II. Sehr schön-vorzüglich. (Germany, county of Fugger-Babenhausen-Wellenburg, Maximilian II, 1598-1629, thaler of 1621, in the name of Ferdinand II. Very fine to extremely fine.)"
The SCWC lists this under Fugger-Babenhausen, not Fugger-Babenhausen-Wellenburg. The Fuggers, a family of merchants who financed the Hapsburgs, controlled both Babenhausen and Wellenburg. At the time of the German mediatization by Napoleon in 1806, the estate was divided into Prince of Fugger-Babenhausen, the Count of Fugger-Glött, Count of Fugger-Kirchberg-Weissenhorn, Count of Fugger-Kirchheim and Count of Fugger-Nordendorf. The territory was partitioned between Wurttemberg and Bavaria. This kipperthaler had a face value of 120 kreuzer instead of the usual ninety. The similar thaler of 1621, Dav-6673, has the eagle holding a sword and scepter.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 27,43 g.
Catalog reference: KM 16, Dav-6672; Kull 97 a.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., German Secular Talers, 1600-1700, Frankfurt: Numismatischer Verlag, 1976.
- [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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