Mainz 1770-DF thaler Dav-2428
This specimen was lot 4812 in Künker sale 386 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €360 (about US$465 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"MAINZ, ERZBISTUM, Emerich Joseph von Breitbach-Bürresheim, 1763-1774. Konv.-Taler 1770, DF, Mainz. Sehr seltener Jahrgang. Sehr schön. Erworben 1953 von der Münzenhandlung Richard Götze (RIGÖ), Berlin. (archbishopric of Mainz, Emerich Joseph von Breitbach-Bürresheim, 1763-74, convention thaler of 1770, Mainz mint. Very rare date, very fine.)"
The archbishops of Mainz were prolific issuers of gold coins in the late middle ages but output dropped in the late fifteenth century, never to recover. This thaler of 1770-71 is scarce but not rare. A pfennig was the only other coin struck in Mainz in 1770.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 28.06 g, 0.833 fine silver, this specimen 27.85 g.
Catalog reference: KM 380, Slg. Walther 617; Dav-2428; Slg. Pick 746.
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- Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1965.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 386: Brakteaten | Mainz | Bibliothek Prof. Dr. Niklot Klüßendorf | Mittelalter und Neuzeit | Goldprägungen | Deutsche Münzen ab 1871, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2023.
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