Luneburg 1589 thaler Dav-9424
This thaler struck 1581-93 was not issued by the duke of Brunswick-Luneburg but by the city in its own name. This specimen was lot 4111 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,400 (about US$1,832 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"LÜNEBURG, STADT. Reichstaler (32 Schilling) 1589, mit Titel Rudolfs II. Von größter Seltenheit. Fast sehr schön. Exemplar der Slg. Hermann Vogel, Teil 4, Auktion L. + L. Hamburger 75, Frankfurt/Main 1925, Nr. 2594. (Germany, city of Luneburg, thaler of 1589, in the name of Rudolf II. Very rare, about very fine.)"
Double thalers (Dav-9423) also exist.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 28,43 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-9424; Schnee 15; Mader 334a (this example).
- 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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