Lubeck 1608-IG thaler Dav-5441
This specimen was lot 4000 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €4,800 (about US$6,281 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"LÜBECK, BISTUM. Johann Adolf, Herzog von Holstein-Gottorp, 1586-1607. Taler 1608. Zwittertaler. RR Fast sehr schön. (Germany, bishopric of Lubeck, John Adolf, duke of Holstein-Gottorp, 1586-1607, thaler of 1608. Rare, about very fine.)"
The bishopric of Lubeck having completely converted to Lutheranism, there was no need to appoint a priest to the episcopal throne. The dukes of Schleswig-Holstein held the bishopric from 1589 until it was secularized in 1802. The coinage issued therefrom was completely separate from that of the Hanseatic city. This type was minted after Johann Adolf had abdicated in favor of Johann Friedrich in 1607.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 28,76 g.
Catalog reference: KM 36, Dav-5441; Behrens 825; Lange 268 b.
- 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]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
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