Muhlhausen 1767 1/24 thaler
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This specimen was lot 2539 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $168. The catalog description[1] noted, "MÜHLHAUSEN: Free City, AR 1/24 thaler, 1767, a wonderful example, PCGS graded MS64." There are two towns named Muhlhausen in Germany; one now in French Alsace, and this one in Thuringia, between Eichsfeld and Schwarzburg. Long an imperial free city, it was mediatized to Prussia in 1802. This issue accompanied a 2 pfenninge (KM 70), 3 pfenninge (KM 56.2), 2/3 thaler (KM 74), 1/12 thaler (KM 73), 6 pfenninge (KM 57.2) and thaler (KM 75). None are common.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 1.98 g, billon, 15.5 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-72, C-4.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 54, featuring selections from the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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