Schaumburg-Lippe 1765 thaler Dav-2764

Ponterio sale 169, lot 10358

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

Lippe in 1789

This specimen was lot 10358 in Ponterio sale 169 (Baltimore, November 2012), where it sold for $352. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Schaumburg-Lippe. Taler, 1765. NGC AU-50. Wilhelm I Friedrich Ernst (1748-77)." The tiny county of Schaumburg-Lippe produced few coins in the eighteenth century but managed to issue one-third thalers, two-thirds thalers, thalers and ten thalers (Fr-3068) in the 1760's.

Recorded mintage: unknown but scarce.

Specification: 19.62 g, silver.

Catalog reference: Dav-2764; KM-20.1.

Source:

• 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.
• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio sale 169: The November 2012 Baltimore Auction, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers, LLC, 2012.

Link to:

• 1748-T thaler, death of Albert Wolfgang
• Schaumburg-Lippe 1750-UAW mariengroschen
• 1761 ⅔ thaler
• 1763 10 thaler
• Prussia 1765-A thaler Dav-2586
• 1777-WD ducat
• Coins and currency dated 1765
• return to coins of German States, Schaumburg-Lippe