Konigsegg-Rothenfels 1759 thaler Dav-2374
This specimen was lot 160 in Künker sale 400 (Berlin, February 2024), where it sold for €4,200 (about US$5,449 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"KÖNIGSEGG-ROTHENFELS, FÜRSTENTUM, Franz Hugo, 1737-1771 und seine Brüder. Reichstaler 1759, Wien, auf die brüderliche Eintracht. Die Brustbilder der vier Brüder einander gegenüber//Wappen und 22 Zeilen Schrift. Mit Randschrift: (Blumenornament) VIGORE · CÆS · PRIVIL · (Blumenornament) DE · XV · OCT · M · D · C · L · XXV ·. Attraktives Exemplar mit hübscher Patina, vorzüglich. Die Randschrift des vorliegenden Talers nimmt Bezug auf das von Kaiser Leopold I. am 15. Oktober 1675 erteilte Münzprivilegium. (Germany, principality of Konigsegg-Rothenfels, Francis Hugo and his brothers, 1737-71, Vienna mint, on fraternal unity. Obverse: the four brothers together; reverse: arms and 22 line inscription, lettered edge. Attractive example with handsome patina, extremely fine. The edge lettering refers to Leopold I, who granted the mint right to the county in 1675.)"
This insignificant county was wedged between the Austrian Vorarlberg and the bishopric of Augsburg. During the mediatizations, it passed to Bavaria in 1805. The coinage therefrom was done strictly to preserve the county's mint right and was struck to order in Vienna. The count's brothers were Karl Ferdinand, Christian Moritz Eugen and Maximilian Friedrich.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 29,11 g.
Catalog reference: KM 6, Dav-2374; Binder 2.
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- Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1965.
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- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 400: Selected löser of the Dukes of Guelph from the Friedrich Popken Collection | Numismatic treasures from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. "multiple portraits" from a Westphalian private collection, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.
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