Schaumburg-Pinneberg 1615 1/16 thaler
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This specimen was lot 1231 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $188. The catalog description[1] noted, "SCHAUMBURG-PINNEBERG: AR 1/16 thaler (1)615, PCGS graded MS64, ex Don Erickson Collection." 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 1/16 thaler (equalled two schilling) was issued 1616-20 before the local dynasty lapsed in 1640. Pinneberg lies between Gluckstadt and Altona on the Elbe river.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, 1.5-1.8 g, 22-25 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-77.
- 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.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
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