Goslar 1611 thaler Dav-5323
This specimen was lot 4204 in Künker sale 406 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €2,600 (about US$3,412 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"GOSLAR, STADT, Reichstaler 1611, mit Titel Rudolfs II. Von großer Seltenheit. Hübsche Patina, sehr schön. (city of Goslar, thaler of 1611, struck in the name of Rudolf II. Extremely rare, handsome patina, very fine.)"
Goslar was an imperial city surrounded by Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and often acted as a mint for the dukes of that state. The city minted an extensive series of minor coinage in the seventeenth century. Thalers, including this one, are well attested but are listed in the SCWC as half thalers.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 29,03 g.
Catalog reference: KM 10.2, Dav-5323; Buck/Büttner/Kluge 210 A/b.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., German Church and City Talers, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1967.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 406: Gold Coins | Coins and Medals from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. Löwenstein-Wertheim | German Coins after 1871, a. o. Patterns from the Coenen Collection, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.
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