Magdeburg (15)84-DS thaler Dav-9441

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Künker sale 263, lot 358
bishopric of Halberstadt in 1547. Magdeburg is to the northeast.

This specimen was lot 358 in Künker sale 263 (Osnabrück, June 2015), where it sold for €1,200 (about US$1,550 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Magdeburg, ERZBISTUM Joachim Friedrich von Brandenburg, 1566-1598. Reichstaler 1584, Halle. Min. Schrötlingsfehler, winz. Prägeschwäche, vorzüglich. (Germany, archbishopric of Magdeburg, Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg, 1566-98, thaler of 1584, Halle mint. Planchet flaws, cleaned, extremely fine. )"

Davenport lists this type of 1583-85 as scarce. By the second half of the sixteenth century, the archbishopric of Magdeburg was completely converted to Lutheranism yet the ecclesiastical state was not abolished. Instead, it became a puppet state of the elector of Brandenburg, who either appointed himself or one of his close relatives archbishop. Brandenburg annexed it outright in 1680.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: Dav-9441, v. Schr. 245 leicht var.

Source:

  • 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 263, The Friedrich Popken collection of gold and silver coinages | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the collection of Ernst Otto Horn, part III, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2015.

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