Luneburg 1647 1/64 thaler
This specimen was lot 71420, in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, October 2019), where it sold for $192. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Luneburg. 1/64 Taler (Sechsling), 1647. NGC MS-66. Stunning quality for the type, it should come as no surprise that NGC has graded none finer, with this example being the best in their census. Incredibly lustrous and brilliant, the current NGC price trends lists a value of $220 for EF-40, the highest grade for the series to which their scale goes." This type is now listed in the SCWC under German States--City of Luneburg but we have filed it under Brunswick-Luneburg, the surrounding duchy. This type was issued by the city of Luneburg (not by the duke) 1643 and 1647. Denominated as a fraction of a thaler, it might actually be good silver.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM-71.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The October 2019 Collector's Choice Sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.
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