Saxony 1606-HR thaler Dav-7566
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This specimen was lot 70159 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, May 2020), where it sold for $630. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Saxony. Taler, 1606-HR. Dresden Mint. Christian II, Johann Georg I & August. NGC MS-62. Incredible quality for the type, this near choice example--tied with just one other for the finest in the NGC census--offers deep gray surfaces with a good deal of lustrous brilliance remaining." The SCWC notes this type for 1604-11. A double thaler exists (Dav-7565) but is rare.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: Dav-7566; KM-24.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., German Secular Talers, 1600-1700, Frankfurt: Numismatischer Verlag, 1976.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Gernot Schnee, Sächsiche Taler, 1500-1800. Frankfurt Am Main, P. N. Schulten, 1982.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The May 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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