Schwarzburg 1603 thaler Dav-7674
This specimen was lot 4386 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €2,800 (about US$3,664 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SCHWARZBURG, SCHWARZBURG-RUDOLSTADT, GRAFSCHAFT, SEIT 1711 FÜRSTENTUM. Albert VII. Günther XLII. Anton Heinrich, Johann Günther II. und Christian Günther I. 1601-1605. Taler 1603, mit Titel Rudolfs II. RR Sehr schön. (Germany, county of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, joint rule of Albert VII, Gunther XLII, Anton Henry, John Gunther II and Christian Gunther, 1601-05, thaler of 1603, in the name of Rudolf II. Rare, very fine.)"
This thaler was struck 1601-05 as a joint coinage between Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 28,78 g.
Catalog reference: KM 3, Dav-7674; Fischer 162.
- 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., German Secular Talers, 1600-1700, Frankfurt: Numismatischer Verlag, 1976.
- [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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