Solms-Laubach 1767-WWE thaler Dav-2782
This specimen was lot 4292 in Künker sale 406 (Osnabruck, March 2024), where it sold for €950 (about US$1,247 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SOLMS-LAUBACH, GRAFSCHAFT, Christian August, 1738-1784. Konv.-Taler 1767, Wertheim, auf das gräflich wetterauische Direktorium. Gekröntes, vierfeldiges Wappen in Rokokkogestell mit Ordensband und Stern, r. dahinter ein rückwärts schauender Löwe, unten Münzstättenzeichen W in Verzierung und X EINE FEINE / MARCK ·, zu den Seiten die geteilte Signatur W · - E · (Münzwardein Christian Franz Weber und Münzmeister (Johann Christoph Eberhard). Mit Randschrift: f THUE (Verzierung) RECHT (Verzierung) SCHEUE (Verzierung) NIEMAND. Haussammlung der Fürsten zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (Auktion Künker 212) 4208. Winz. Schrötlingsfehler, vorzüglich. (Germany, county of Solms-Laubach, Christian August, 1738-64, convention thaler of 1737. Wertheim mint, for the Wetterau Directorate. Crowned and quartered arms in a rococo cartouche with order sash and star, supported by a lion, mintmark and weight below; reverse: eight line inscription and date. Minor edge bumps, extremely fine.)"
The Wetterau Directorate, commemorated here, is a body completely lost to history except for this thaler. The county was mediatized to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 but the last coinage is dated 1770.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 28.06 g, 0.833 fine silver, lettered edge, this specimen 28,08 g.
Catalog reference: KM 28, Dav-2782; Joseph 451 b; Beck/Morschek 34.3.
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- Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1965.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [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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