Olmutz 1726 thaler Dav-1219A
This specimen was lot 4643 in Künker sale 406 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €550 (about US$722 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"DIE GEISTLICHKEIT IN DEN HABSBURGISCHEN ERBLANDEN, OLMUTZ, Wolfgang von Schrattenbach, 1711-1738. Reichstaler 1726. Feine Patina, üblicher Stempelfehler, vorzüglich. (bishopric of Olmutz, Wolfgang von Schrattenbach, 1711-38, thaler of 1726. Fine patina, the usual die break, extremely fine.)"
This type from 1726-27 is among the more available issues from this ecclesiastical state in Moravia, then part of Austria, now the Czech Republic. This date comes with the obverse legend "SCHRATTEMBACHE:OL*" (shown here) or "SCHRATTEMBACHE:OL·". This example shows the same obverse die break as the plate coin in the SCWC.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 28.50 g.
Catalog reference: KM 422; Dav-1219A; Suchomel/Videman 753.
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- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 406: Gold Coins | Coins and Medals from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. Löwenstein-Wertheim | German Coins after 1871, a. o. Patterns from the Coenen Collection, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.
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