Saxe-Meiningen 1839 gulden
This specimen was lot 1302 in Künker sale 293 (Osnabrück, Germany, July 2017), where it sold for €110 (about US$148 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SACHSEN, SACHSEN-MEININGEN, HERZOGTUM, VON 1735 BIS 1826 SACHSEN-COBURG-MEININGEN, Bernhard Erich Freund, 1803-1866. Gulden 1839. Sehr schön +. Exemplar der Slg. Bernhard Terletzki. (Germany, duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, Bernard Eric, 1803-66, gulden of 1839, very fine or better.)"
This type was struck 1838-41 in sufficient numbers to be somewhat available. The gulden was equal to two-thirds of a reichs thaler in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but shrank to four-sevenths of a union thaler after the Napoleonic Wars. This coin is only slightly larger than a French two francs. It is accompanied by a half gulden (KM 141).
Recorded mintage: 32,243.
Specification: 10.80 g, 0.900 fine silver.
Catalog reference: AKS 187; J. 434, KM 142.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Katalog 293: Münzen aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit u. a. die westfälischen Privatsammlungen Werner Bröker und Bernd Terletzki, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2017.
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