Pomerania-Stettin 1654 2 thaler Dav-LS372A

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Künker sale 335, lot 4207

This specimen was lot 4207 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €7,500 (about US$9,814 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"POMMERN, POMMERN, HERZOGTUM NACH DER LANDESVEREINIGUNG. Bogislaw XIV. (1620-) 1625-1637. Breiter doppelter Reichstaler 1654, Stettin, auf die am 25. Mai stattgehabte Beisetzung des am 10. März 1637 verstorbenen letzten pommerschen Herzogs Bogislaw XIV. Geharnischtes Brustbild r. mit umgelegter Feldbinde, umher Lorbeerkranz//15 Zeilen Schrift, umher Lorbeerkranz. Von großer Seltenheit. Sehr schön. Exemplar der Slg. Dr. Heinrich Neumann. Exemplar der Slg. A. Freybourg, Auktion Adolph Hess Nachf. 127, Frankfurt/Main 1910, Nr. 193. (Germany, unified duchy of Pomerania, Bogislav XIV, 1625-37, double thaler of 1654, Stettin mint, issued on the funeral of the last duke of Pomerania, who died in 1637. Obverse: armored bust right with sash in laurel wreath; reverse: 15 line inscription in laurel wreath. Very rare, very fine.)"

On the lapse of the dynasty in 1637, the duchy was contested between Sweden and Brandenburg until they agreed to partition it by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. As Sweden gradually weakened, Brandenburg (later Prussia) gradually nibbled away at the Swedish portion until the remainder was seized in 1815. This funeral commemorative was accompanied by a half thaler (KM 144), single thaler (KM 148, KM 149, KM 150, KM 151), triple thaler (KM 153) and quadruple thaler (KM 155). All are rare.

Recorded mintage: 50.

Specification: silver, 51.01 g, this specimen 56,74 g.

Catalog reference: KM 152, Dav-LS372A; Hildisch 377; Slg. Hahn (Auktion Künker 224) 1373; Olding 270B a.

Source:

  • Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • Davenport, John S., Large Size Silver Coins of the World, 16th-19th Centuries, 3rd Ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1991.
  • [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.

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