Silesia 1624-BZ 1/2 thaler

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Künker sale 406, lot 4491

This specimen was lot 4491 in Künker sale 406 (Osnabruck, March 2024), where it sold for €1,600 (about US$2,099 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"RÖMISCH-DEUTSCHES REICH, Ferdinand II. 1592-1618-1637. 1/2 Reichstaler 1624, BZ, Neisse. Generalpächter Balthasar Zwirner. Von großer Seltenheit. Leichte Prägeschwäche, sehr schön. (Austria, Ferdinand II, 1618-37, half thaler of 1624, Niesse mint. Extremely rare, slightly weakly struck, very fine.)"

The Neisse best known today is the river Neisse which divides Poland from Germany. However, there is a town of Neisse in central Silesia which was the site of a Hapsburg mint 1622-25, in the opening years of the Thirty Years War. This is one of the half thalers struck there.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 13.74 g.

Catalog reference: KM 126 (listed under Silesia), F. u. S. 141.

Source:

  • 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.
  • [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 406: Gold Coins | Coins and Medals from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. Löwenstein-Wertheim | German Coins after 1871, a. o. Patterns from the Coenen Collection, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.

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