Paar 1794 1/2 thaler
This specimen was lot 1157 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $1,080. The catalog description[1] noted, "PAAR: Johann Wenzel, 1792-1812, AR ½ thaler, Vienna, 1794, WENCESLAVS S ROM IMP PRINCEPS A PAAR around bust, I N WÜRTH for Johan Nepomuk Würth below // SVP IMP AVL REG HER / P G HER POST MAG 1794, around crowned double-headed imperial eagle with the arms of the Paar family, and Latin legend "Supremus Imperii Auleaque Regiae Hereditarius & Per Germaniam Hereditarius Postarum Magister", mintage of only 400 pieces, a lustrous example with light surface hairlines, NGC graded AU55, R." Other Austrian princes, such as Lobkowitz and Orsini-Rosenburg, also exercised their mint right in the 1790's. It is the last issue by this family.
Recorded mintage: 400.
Specification: 14.03 g, 0.833 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-5.
- 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 Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 43, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.
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