Lubeck 1662 thaler Dav-5455
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This specimen was lot 4066 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €650 (about US$851 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"LÜBECK, STADT. Reichstaler (32 Schilling) 1662, mit Titel Leopolds I. und dem Abzeichen des Bürgermeisters Hermann von Dorne. RR Kl. Schrötlingsfehler, min. berieben, sehr schön. (Germany, city of Lubeck, thaler of 1662, in the name of Leopold I and the badge of mayor Herman of Dorne. Rare, some scratches and smoothing, very fine.)"
This type is listed for 1662-63 and is rare even for Lubeck thalers.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, 42 mm diameter, this specimen 28,26 g.
Catalog reference: KM 99, Dav-5455; Behrens 181 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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