Olmutz 1734 thaler Dav-1223
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This specimen was lot 833 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $390. The catalog description[1] noted, "OLMÜTZ: Wolfgang von Schrattenbach, 1711-1738, AR thaler, 1734, removed from a mount at 12:00, some evidence of old tooling in the fields, however still an attractive piece, VF, ex Almer H. Orr III Collection." This type from 1730, 1733-36 is among the more available issues from this ecclesiastical state in Moravia, then part of Austria, now the Czech Republic.
Recorded mintage: unknown but fairly common.
Specification: silver, this specimen 28.23 g.
Catalog reference: KM 440 (formerly KM-151), Dav-1223.
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- 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 Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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