Lubeck 1633 1/2 thaler
This specimen was lot 4056 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €460 (about US$602 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"LÜBECK, STADT. 1/2 Reichstaler (16 Schilling) 1633, mit Titel Ferdinands II. und den Abzeichen der Bürgermeister Heinrich Köhler und Lorenz Möller. R Sehr schön. (Germany, city of Lubeck, half thaler of 1633, in the name of Ferdinand II and the badges of mayor Henry Kohler and Laurence Moller. Scarce, very fine.)"
This type was struck 1620-35 and is not cheap. It is listed in the SCWC as a sixteen schilling, not a half thaler, altho worth the same.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 13,95 g.
Catalog reference: KM 52, Behrens 235 var.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [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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