Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 1763 1/2 thaler KM-124
This specimen was lot 4334 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,000 (about US$1,309 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SACHSEN, SACHSEN-WEIMAR, HERZOGTUM, AB 1741 SACHSEN. Anna Amalia, 1758-1775, Regentin. 2/3 Taler (1/2 Konv.-Taler) 1763, Eisenach. Selten, besonders in dieser Erhatlung. Prachtexemplar. Min. Justierspuren am Rand, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (Germany, duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Anna Amalia, regent, 1758-75. Two-thirds thaler of 1763, Eisenach mint. Rare in this quality, cabinet piece, minor adjustment mark on the edge, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"
Altho this is listed as a two-thirds thaler (probably because of the conspicuous "⅔" on the reverse), the weight is that of a half convention thaler ("XX. EINE FEINE MARCK") and we are listing it here as such. As the reichs thaler was superseded by the convention thaler, the thaler was revalued from ninety kreuzer to 120 kreuzer. The gulden, fixed at sixty kreuzer, therefore slipped from two-thirds thaler, its value in the seventeenth century, to half a thaler. Several other coins of this size were issued in 1763, including KM 125.1, 125.2 and 125.3. None are common.
Recorded mintage: 1,450.
Specification: 15.60 g, 0.750 fine silver, this specimen 15.82 g.
Catalog reference: KM 124, Koppe 569.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [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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