Swabian Circle 1694 thaler Dav-7799
This specimen was lot 4459 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabruck, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €3,000 (about US$3,926 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"WÜRTTEMBERG, WÜRTTEMBERG, HERZOGTUM, SEIT 1806 KÖNIGREICH. Eberhard Ludwig, 1693-1733. Reichstaler 1694, Augsburg. Prägung für den Schwäbischen Kreis. RR Hübsche Patina, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (Germany, duchy of Wurttemberg, Eberhard Louis, 1693-1733, thaler of 1694, Augsburg mint. Struck for the Swabian circle. Rare, handsome patina, very fine to extremely fine.)"
This rare thaler was struck by the duke of Württemberg for the Swabian Circle, an administrative division of the Holy Roman Empire that roughly corresponds to the modern German state of Baden-Wurttemberg. Besides the regional powers of Baden and Wurttemberg, it also included the Austrian Breisgau, Hohenzollern, Furstenburg and a mess of free cities and petty lordships.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 27.69 g.
Catalog reference: KM 1, Dav-7799; Forster 321; Klein/Raff 39.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
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