Schaumburg-Pinneberg (1601-22) 1-1/2 thaler Dav-LS473
This specimen was lot 4379 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €2,200 (about US$2,879 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, HOLSTEIN-SCHAUENBURG, GRAFSCHAFT, Ernst III. 1601-1622. 1 1/2facher Reichstaler o. J. Altona. RR Winz. Henkelspur, sehr schön. (Germany, county of Holstein-Schauenburg, Ernest III, 1601-22, undated 1½ thaler, Altona mint. Rare, small mount mark, very fine.)"
Davenport lists this under Schleswig-Holstein-Schauenburg; the SCWC notes this under Schaumburg-Pinneberg; both are likely correct. The dynastic affairs of this duchy are complicated even by German standards as the dukes were related to the king of Denmark and even the czar of Russia. This 1½ thaler is one of a series (Dav-LS458 thru -LS481) issued in the early seventeenth century before the local dynasty lapsed in 1640. Pinneberg lies between Glückstadt and Altona on the Elbe river.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 43.01 g.
Catalog reference: KM 33, Dav-LS473; Lange 831 b; Weing. 104 Anm.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
- [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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