Stolberg-Stolberg 1796-EHAZ 1-1/3 thaler Dav-2809

Stack's Bowers 2021 ANA sale, lot 44448

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

Stolberg in 1789, with Wernigerode to the northwest near Halberstadt

This specimen was lot 44448 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $1,170. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Stolberg. 1-1/3 Taler, 1796. Karl Ludwig & Heinrich Christian Friedrich. ANACS AU-55 Details--Cleaned. A well struck coin with some scuffs in the obverse fields, now toning a light gray with darker colors in the obverse peripheries." This rare type was the last thaler struck by this state, which became part of Saxony. The last coin was a ducat (Fr-3364) struck in 1824.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: Dav-2809; KM-332.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The August 2021 ANA sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

Links to:

• 1764 ⅓ thaler
• Stolberg 1764-C thaler Dav-2808
• Stolberg-Stolberg 1796-Z ducat Fr-3352
• Stolberg-Wernigerode 1824 ducat Fr-3364
• Coins and currency dated 1796