Schlick 1630 thaler Dav-3400
This specimen was lot 420 in Künker sale 400 (Berlin, February 2024), where it sold for €1,300 (about US$1,687 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"DIE ÖSTERREICHISCHEN STANDESHERREN, SCHLICK, GRAFSCHAFT, Heinrich IV. 1612-1650. Reichstaler 1630, Plan, mit Titel Ferdinands II. Ausbeute. Feine Patina, winz. Kratzer, sehr schön + (Austrian states, county of Schlick, Henry IV, 1612-50, thaler of 1630, struck in the name of Ferdinand II, for the mines. Fine patina, light scratches, very fine or better.)"
The counts of Schlick in Bohemia were the original proprietors of the mint at Joachimsthal, where the first "thalers" were struck. However, by the seventeenth century the counts had long since lost the mine and only recovered the mint right in 1626. This type is part of a series of mining thalers struck intermittently 1627-77 (Dav-3398 thru Dav-3413). Wikipedia comments,
"Count Heinrich von Schlick zu Bassano und Weißkirchen (1580 – 5 January 1650, Vienna) was an Imperial Field Marshal and president of the Hofkriegsrat. As a young man, he fought in Hungary under Giorgio Basta for Rudolf II against Stephen Bocskay's revolt until 1604. As a Lutheran, he sided with the Protestant Bohemians at the beginning of the Bohemian phase of the Thirty Years War, when the province was overrun by Imperial forces. As a competent officer his advice was often overlooked, especially at the Battle of White Mountain that took place on November 8, 1620. The battle was a defeat for the Protestant Bohemians. After the defeat he changed to the Imperial side."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 28,86 g.
Catalog reference: KM 8.3, Dav-3400; Donebauer 3799; Smetana/Jakymenková C 16 a.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 400: Selected löser of the Dukes of Guelph from the Friedrich Popken Collection | Numismatic treasures from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. "multiple portraits" from a Westphalian private collection, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.
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