Passau 1764 1/8 thaler

Stack's Bowers 2019 Collector's Choice sale, lot 71423

This specimen was lot 71423 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, October 2019), where it sold for $456. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Passau. 1/8 Taler, 1764. Leopold Ernst Joseph. PCGS MS-62 Gold Shield. Homage Commemorative. A lovely well preserved example with rich old cabinet tone over lustrous surfaces." This very scarce one year type was accompanied by a quarter thaler (KM 86), 1½ ducat and a triple ducat. The Bishopric of Passau, between Bavaria and Austria, struck a few thalers in the eighteenth century, all now rare. The bishopric was secularized in 1803 and handed over to Bavaria.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM-84.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The October 2019 Collector's Choice Sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.

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• 1747-D ducat
• 1753 6 ducats, on the 50th anniversary of the bishop's ordination
• 1764 quarter thaler, for the homage of Passau
• 1764 1½ ducat, for the homage of Passau
• 1764 triple ducat, for the homage of Passau
• 1779 thaler
• 1779 ducat
• Coins and currency dated 1764