Saxony 1642-CR thaler Dav-7612
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This specimen was lot 25186 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2023), where it sold for $1,140. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Saxony. Taler, 1642-CR. Dresden Mint. Johann Georg I. NGC MS-62. An elegantly toned and handsomely struck crown, this nearly-Choice and extremely pleasingly lustrous example radiates with seemingly the same degree of brilliance as the day on which it departed from the mint. From the Augustana Collection." This coin was issued by the elector of Saxony in 1638-56 and is one of the common thalers of the seventeenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: Dav-7612; KM-425; Schnee-879.
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- Gernot Schnee, Sächsiche Taler, 1500-1800. Frankfurt Am Main, P. N. Schulten, 1982.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The January 2023 NYINC Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Taraszka Collection and the Mark and Dottie Salton Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
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