Schaumburg-Pinneberg (1601-22) 2 thaler Dav-LS472
This specimen was lot 1370 in Künker sale 263 (Osnabrück, June 2015), where it sold for €5,000 (about US$6,459 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"HOLSTEIN-SCHAUENBURG, GRAFSCHAFT Ernst III. 1601-1622. Doppelter Reichstaler o. J. Altona. Dreifach behelmtes, vierfeldiges Wappen mit Mittelschild//Der geharnischte Graf reitet r. mit Helm und Kommandostab, unten grasbewachsener Boden. RR Feine Patina, sehr schön. (Germany, duchy of Holstein-Schauenburg, Ernest III, 1601-22, double thaler without date, Altona mint. Obverse: three helmets above quartered arms; reverse: the count, armored and mounted, charges right on a grassy mound. Rare, toned, very fine.)"
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 double 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 Gluckstadt and Altona on the Elbe river.
Recorded mintage: unknown but rare.
Specification: 58 g, silver, this specimen 57.99 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-LS472; Lange 831 a var.; Weinm. 97, KM 38 (listed under Schaumburg-Pinneberg).
- [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.
- 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., Large Size Silver Coins of the World, 16th-19th Centuries, 3rd Ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1991.
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