Hannover 1780-IWS 1/6 thaler
This specimen was lot 3373 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $107.10. The catalog description[1] noted, "BRUNSWICK-CALENBERG-HANNOVER: George III, 1760-1820, AR 1/6 thaler, 1780, mintmaster IWS, very faint hairlines, lustrous lovely toned surfaces! Unc." This type was struck 1773, 1780, 1782 to the convention thaler standard (one thaler = 120 kreuzer). This example realized about one third of the catalog value. The SCWC also records a 1780-CES 1/6 thaler with a wildman on the obverse. Hannover, linked to the British crown 1714-1837, embroiled England in several continental conflicts the British establishment would rather have avoided.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM-366, Welter-2832.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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