Saxe-Eisenberg 1682-HM 2/3 thaler
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This specimen was lot 4351 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,700 (about US$2,225 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SACHSEN, SACHSEN-EISENBERG, HERZOGTUM. Christian, 1680-1707. 2/3 Taler 1682, Gotha. RR Sehr schön-vorzüglich. (Germany, duchy of Saxe-Eisenberg, Christian, 1680-1707, two-thirds thaler of 1682, Gotha mint. Rare, very fine to extremely fine.)"
This gulden accompanied a thaler (Dav-7422). The line lapsed on the death of the duke, after one generation. After much wrangling, his state passed to Saxe-Hildburghausen.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 19.34 g, silver, this specimen 19.26 g.
Catalog reference: KM 10, Dav-850; Gräßler/Walde 11.
- 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.
- [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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