Lippe-Detmold 1860-A thaler Dav-725
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This specimen was lot 75054 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $840. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Lippe-Detmold. Taler, 1860-A. Berlin Mint. Paul Friedrich Emil Leopold III. NGC MS-62. A lovely Mint State exemplar, delivering appealing brilliance, with handsome eye appeal and sharp details throughout. A tremendous representative of this States issue." This thaler, issued 1860 and 1866, is the only thaler issued from this locale in the nineteenth century. It is, fortunately for collectors, not that expensive.
Recorded mintage: 25,600.
Specification: 18.52 g, 0.900 fine silver.
Catalog reference: Dav-725, KM-267.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns and Talers, Since 1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1964.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, October 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the S.P. Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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