Pomerania 1763-IDL 1/48 thaler
This specimen was lot 2589 in Steve Album Auction 52 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $216. The catalog description[1] noted, "POMERANIA (SWEDISH): Adolphus Frederick, BI 1/48 thaler, 1763-IDL, a pleasant lustrous mint state example! PCGS graded MS61. Swedish Pomerania was a dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. Following the Polish War and the Thirty Years' War, Sweden held extensive control over the lands on the southern Baltic coast, including Pomerania and parts of Livonia and Prussia." This one year type also comes with initials "LDS". It is fairly common, suggesting that it was struck for several years with a frozen date. Sweden ceded her last holdings in Pomerania to Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 1.36 g, billon, 17 mm diameter, plain edge.
Catalog reference: KM-416, SB-264a.
- Bjorne Ahlström, Yngve Almer and Bengt Hemmingson, Sveriges Mynt, 1521-1977, the Coinage of Sweden. Stockholm: Numismatika Bokforlaget AB, 1976.
- Delzanno, Roberto, Myntårsboken 2022, Sveriges Mynt 995-2021, 1:a upplagen, Stockholm, 2021.
- 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 Dustin Wagner, Auction 52, featuring the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection and the Almer H. Orr III Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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