Hesse-Cassel 1637-GK thaler Dav-6772

Ponterio sale 169, lot 10313

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 10313 in Ponterio sale 169 (Baltimore, November 2012), where it sold for $705. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Hesse-Cassel. Taler, 1637-GK. NGC AU Details--Mount Removed. Wilhelm VI (1627-37). Toned. From the Demarete Collection." Davenport lists 13 different thalers (Dav-6757, -6759, -6760, -6761, -6762, -6763, -A6764, -6765, -6766, -6770, -6771, -6772, -6773, not counting double thalers) from Hesse-Cassel for 1637. This is one of the more common.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: Dav-6772; KM-181.

Source:

• 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]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio sale 169: The November 2012 Baltimore Auction, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers, LLC, 2012.

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• 1633-TS thaler
• 1637-GK thaler
• 1637-LH thaler, "LH" above lion
• 1637-LH thaler, "LH" below lion
• 1637-LH thaler, "LH" in legend
• 1637 1/8 thaler
• 1637-AG "willow" thaler
• 1637-GK thaler
• 1651 thaler, on the death of the landgrave's mother
• Coins and currency dated 1637
• return to coins of German States, Hesse-Cassel