Stralsund 1685-HIH 1/96 thaler KM-149
This specimen was lot 11073 in Stack's Bowers June 2026 World Premier Collectors Choice Auction (Copenhagen, June 2026), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "SWEDEN. Stralsund. 1/96 Taler, 1685-HIH. Stralsund Mint. Karl XI. NGC VF Details--Environmental Damage. From the L.E. Bruun Collection." For this year, the SCWC notes KM 149 (struck 1674, 1682, 1685) and KM 181 (struck 1685, 1691, 1692). Sweden seized the port of Stralsund in Pomerania in 1628 and held it until 1809, when it was captured by French troops. Altho Stralsund was autonomous, it was not an imperial free city, and so the Swedish kings permitted it to issue only low value local coinage. The crowned arrow is the badge of the town. At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the town was ceded to Prussia along with the remnant of Swedish Pomerania.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: billon.
Catalog reference: KM-149; SB-96; Delzanno-1116; Bruun-12430.
- Bjorne Ahlström, Yngve Almer and Bengt Hemmingson, Sveriges Mynt, 1521-1977, the Coinage of Sweden. Stockholm: Numismatika Bokförlaget AB, 1976.
- Delzanno, Roberto, Myntårsboken 2022, Sveriges Mynt 995-2021, 1:a upplagen, Stockholm, 2021.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, June 2026 World Premier Collectors Choice Auction - Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection, the Richard Margolis Collection and the Kirk Menczer Collection of Republican Reales Minors, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2026.
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