Saxony 1740-FWoF thaler Dav-2668
This specimen was lot 1217 in Künker sale 263 (Osnabrück, June 2015), where it sold for €1,200 (about US$1,550 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SACHSEN, KURFÜRSTENTUM Friedrich August II. 1733-1763. Reichstaler 1740, Dresden, auf das Vikariat. Gestopftes Loch, fast sehr schön. (Electorate of Saxony, Frederick August II, 1733-63, thaler of 1740, Dresden mint, on the vicariat. Plugged, very fine.)"
This type of 1740 and 1745 is rare. The exhaustion of the fighting in Poland rendered the Saxon state prostrate, and most of the thalers of this period are rare. Prosperity (and high mintages) would not return until the reign of Friedrich August III (1763-1806).
Recorded mintage: unknown but rare.
Specification: 28.6 g, 0.833 fine silver.
Catalog reference: Dav-2668; Schnee 1031, KM 902.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 263, The Friedrich Popken collection of gold and silver coinages | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the collection of Ernst Otto Horn, part III, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2015.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1965.
- Gernot Schnee, Sächsiche Taler, 1500-1800, Frankfurt Am Main, P. N. Schulten, 1982.
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