Transylvania 1611-CIBIN thaler Dav-4703A
This specimen was lot 5495 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabruck, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €4,400 (about US$5,758 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"UNGARN, SIEBENBÜRGEN, FÜRSTENTUM, Gabriel Bathory, 1608-1613. Einseitiger Nottaler 1611, Hermannstadt. Krone über drei Wappen (Der wachsende Adler / Familienwappen von Bathory / Die sieben Burgen), unten die Jahreszahl 16 · 11 / CIBIN, umher Drachenring. RR Hübsche Patina, kl. Doppelschlag, sehr schön. Aus der Sammlung Eberhard Link. Exemplar der Auktion Münzzentrum 77, Köln 1994, Nr. 2764. (Hungary, principality of Transylvania, Gabriel Bathory, 1608-13, uniface thaler of 1611, Hermannstadt mint. Obverse: crown over three shields, date below. Rare, nice toning, slightly double struck, very fine.)"
This type was struck in numerous varieties (Dav-4703, -4704, -4705, -4706) during a siege. The princes of Transylvania were sandwiched between the Ottoman Empire to the south and the Hapsburg dominions to the west and attempted to maintain independence from both. The Hapsburgs reconquered Hungary from the Turks in the 1680's and ended Transylvanian autonomy.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 27.93 g.
Catalog reference: KM 85, Dav-4703 A; Resch 122; Brause-Mansfeld Tf. 38, 10 leicht var.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Adolf Resch, Siebenburgische Münzen und Medaillen von 1538 bis Gegenwart. Hermannstadt, 1901 (reprinted in Montreal, 1965).
- [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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