Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 1799 1/24 thaler
This specimen was lot 2973 in Steve Album Auction 53 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[1] noted, "SAXE-WEIMAR-EISENACH: Karl August, 1758-1815, BI 1/24 thaler, 1799, a wonderful lustrous mint state example! PCGS graded MS64, ex Joe Sedillot Collection. In 1799, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was under the rule of Duke Karl August, a progressive and enlightened leader who had already begun transforming the duchy into a major cultural center of Germany. That year falls within the Weimar Classical period, during which the duchy, particularly the city of Weimar, flourished intellectually and artistically. Key figures like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried Herder were active at court, and Friedrich Schiller had recently joined the cultural circle. Politically, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach remained neutral amid the growing conflicts of the French Revolutionary Wars, focusing instead on domestic reform and cultural development." This type was struck intermittently 1794, 1796, 1801, 1804, 1808, 1810, 1813-14 and does not have a high catalog value. The initials "S.W.u.E." stand for Sachsen, Weimar und Eisenach and "S.M." stands for "Scheide Münze".
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 2.12 g, 0.229 fine silver, 19 mm diameter, plain edge.
Catalog reference: KM-148, Cr-70.
- 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 Hanbing Feng, Auction 53, featuring Selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld, Almer H. Orr III, Dr. Dirk Loer and Joe Sedillot Collections, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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