Pfalz 1748-FO 2/3 thaler
This specimen was lot 1877 in Jean Elsen sale 158 (Brussels, March 2024), where it sold for €600 (about US$780 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"ALLEMAGNE, PALATINAT-SULZBACH, Karl Theodor (1777-1799), AR 2/3 Taler, 1748 FO, Mannheim. Frappé avec l'argent des mines de Wildberg. D/ B. cuir. à d. R/ Ecu couronné, entouré d'un collier. Rare. Petites griffes. Très Beau à Superbe. (Germany, electorate of the Palatinate, Charles Theodore, 1777-99, silver two-thirds thaler of 1748, Mannheim mint, struck from silver from the Wildberg mines. Obverse: armored bust right; reverse: crowned arms, chain around. Rare, light hairlines, Very Fine - Extremely Fine.)"
Charles Theodore was elector of the Palatinate (from 1742), duke of Julich-Berg and later elector of Bavaria (from 1777). This one year type is scarce. As a gulden, it is conventionally called a two-thirds thaler even tho it weighed less than half a thaler.
Reported Mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver; this specimen 12,95 g.
Catalog reference: KM 349, Müseler 46.1.1/2; Haas 90; Dav-749.
- Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Vente Publique 158, Monnaies de la Principauté de Liège, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils S.A., 2024.
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