Schlick 1767 thaler Dav-1197
This specimen was lot 4889 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabruck, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,500 (about US$1,963 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"RÖMISCH-DEUTSCHES REICH. DIE ÖSTERREICHISCHEN STANDESHERREN, SCHLICK, GRAFEN, Leopold Heinrich, 1766-1770. Konv.-Taler 1767, Prag, mit Titel Maria Theresias. Fast vorzüglich. (Holy Roman Empire, counts of Schlick, Leopold Henry, 1766-70, convention thaler of 1767, Prague mint, in the name of Maria Theresia. About extremely fine.)"
The counts of Schlick in Bohemia were the original proprietors of the mint at Joachimsthal, where the first "thalers" were struck. However, by the eighteenth century the counts had long since lost the mint and only a few scarce pieces were struck. Of the three listed for the 1700's (Dav-1195, -1196, -1197), Dav-1196 is the least rare.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 28.06 g, 0.833 fine silver, this specimen 28,00 g.
Catalog reference: KM 35 (listed under Bohemia), Dav-1197; Holzmair 82; Smetana/Jakymenková LH2 a.
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- [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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