Ottingen-Spielberg 1759-M thaler Dav-2501
This specimen was lot 5356 in Künker sale 386 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €2,000 (about US$2,585 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"ÖTTINGEN-SPIELBERG, GRAFSCHAFT, SEIT 1734 FÜRSTENTUM, Johann Aloys I. 1737-1780. Konv.-Taler 1759. Prachtexemplar. Herrliche Patina, fast Stempelglanz, Exemplar der Auktion WAG Online 116, Februar 2021, Nr. 896. (county of Ottingen-Spielberg, John Aloysius I, 1737-80, convention thaler of 1759. Outstanding example, superb patina, about uncirculated.)"
Wikipedia comments,
"Oettingen-Spielberg is a noble family and former principality in modern-day eastern Baden-Württemberg and western Bavaria, Germany. It was partitioned of Oettingen-Wallerstein in 1602. It was raised to a Principality in 1734 (after it inherited the town and the castle of Oettingen in 1731), mediatised to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806, and divided with the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1810. The other still existing branch of the Oettingen family is the House of Oettingen-Wallerstein."
All the coins of this petty state are dated 1759. Thalers from this year include Dav-2500, -2500A, -2501 (shown here), -2502 and -2502A. None are common but this one is probably the most available.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 28.06 g, 0.833 fine silver, this specimen 29.16 g.
Catalog reference: KM 18, Dav-2501; Löffelholz 397.
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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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