Saxony 1709-ILH 2/3 thaler KM-775
This specimen was lot 4291 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabruck, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,400 (about US$1,832 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SACHSEN, SACHSEN, KURFÜRSTENTUM. Friedrich August I. 1694-1733 (August der Starke). 2/3 Taler 1709, Dresden. Unedierter Jahrgang. Sehr schön +. (Germany, electorate of Saxony, Frederick Augustus I, 1694-1733, two-thirds thaler of 1709, Dresden mint. Unpublished date, very fine or better.)"
This may be an unpublished date for the auctioneers but it is listed in the SCWC as KM 775 for 1709-33. It is very similar to the thaler (Dav-2653). The prior gulden (KM 768) for 1708-10 had a monogram reverse.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 13.60 g.
Catalog reference: KM 775, Dav-825; Kahnt - (zu 128, Jahrgang fehlt).
- Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
- 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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