Silesia-Liegnitz-Brieg 1651-VT thaler Dav-7727
This specimen was lot 1355 in Künker sale 263 (Osnabrück, June 2015), where it sold for €2,000 (about US$2,584 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"LIEGNITZ-BRIEG, HERZOGTUM Georg, Ludwig und Christian, 1639-1663. Reichstaler 1651, VT, Brieg. RR Min. Belag, sehr schön. (Germany, duchy of Silesia-Liegnitz-Brieg, George, Louis and Christian, 1639-63, thaler of 1651, Brieg mint. Rare, some deposits, very fine.)"
Silesia is considered a German State even tho the province was then under Austrian rule and is now in Poland. This type of 1651-52 comes with and without mintmaster's initials "VT" but is scarcer with.
Recorded mintage: unknown but rare.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: Dav-7727; F. u. S. 1708, KM 376.
- [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.
- Davenport, John S., German Secular Talers, 1600-1700, Frankfurt: Numismatischer Verlag, 1976.
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