Luneburg 1572 thaler Dav-9421
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This specimen was lot 4110 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,200 (about US$1,570 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"LÜNEBURG, STADT. Reichstaler (32 Schilling) 1572, mit Titel Maximilians II. Gereinigt, sehr schön. (Germany, city of Luneburg, thaler of 1572, in the name of Maximilian II. Removed from jewelry, very fine.)"
This single year thaler was not issued by the duke of Brunswick-Luneburg but by the city in its own name.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 28,96 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-9421; Schnee 10; Mader 246 c.
- Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1500-1600, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1979.
- Nicol, N. Douglas, Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of German Coins, 1501-Present, 3rd ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [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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