Saxony 1747 2/3 thaler KM-921
This specimen was lot 3795 in Künker Auction 426 (Osnabrück, July 2025), where it sold for €1,150 (about US$1,629 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SACHSEN, KURFÜRSTENTUM Friedrich August II., 1733-1763. 2/3 Taler 1747, Dresden, auf die Vermählung seiner Tochter Maria Josefa mit dem Dauphin Louis von Frankreich. Feine Tönung, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (Germany, electorate of Saxony, Frederick Augustus II, 1733-63, two thirds thaler of 1747, Dresden mint, on the marriage of Princess Maria Josepha to the Dauphin Louis of France. Fine toning, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"
This is one of several matrimonial commemoratives issued in that year. By this time, the gulden or two-thirds thaler weighed only half a thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 13.8 g, silver, this specimen 13,74 g.
Catalog reference: KM 921, Dav. -; Kahnt 654.
- 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, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, eLive Premium Auction 426: European and German Coins and Medals from the 16th to the 20th century, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2025.
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