Saxony 1765-EDC 2/3 thaler
This specimen was lot 2984 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $216. The catalog description[1] noted, "SAXONY: Francis Xavier, 1763-1768, AR 2/3 thaler, 1765-EDC, an attractive example with a few light hairlines, XF-AU, ex Joe Sedillot Collection." This coin was struck 1764-68 to the weight of half a convention thaler. As the reichs thaler was superseded by the convention thaler, the thaler was revalued from ninety kreuzer to 120 kreuzer. The gulden, fixed at sixty kreuzer, therefore slipped from two-thirds thaler, its value in the seventeenth century, to half a thaler. The initials EDC were for Ernst Dietrich Kroll, mintmaster in Weilburg (1749-1752), Leipzig (1753-1764) and Dresden (1764-1778).
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 14.03 g, 0.833 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-973, Cr-84.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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- 1764 ⅔ thaler
- 1765-EDC thaler, regent Xaver
- 1765 thaler, regent Xaver's prize for the mining school
- 1765 thaler, Friedrich August's prize for the mining school
- 1765-EDC thaler
- 1765-EDC mining thaler
- 1765 double thaler, award for the art and crafts
- 1765-EDC ducat, Friedrich August III
- 1766-EDC ⅔ thaler, Frederick Augustus
- Coins and currency dated 1765