Transylvania 1628-NB thaler Dav-4724
This specimen was lot 4851 in Künker sale 406 (Osnabruck, March 2024), where it sold for €1,300 (about US$1,706 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"UNGARN, SIEBENBÜRGEN, FÜRSTEN, Gabriel Bethlen, 1613-1629. Reichstaler 1628, NB, Nagybánya. Schrötlingsfehler am Rand, sehr schön. (Hungary, principality of Transylvania, Gabriel Bethlen, 1613-29, thaler of 1628, Nagybánya mint. Planchet defects on the edge, very fine.)"
This type was struck 1628-29 and is expensive like most thalers of this locale. Other thalers of 1628 include KM 182/Dav-4720, KM A204/Dav-4723 and KM B204/Dav-4725, also rare. As Transylvania was never part of the Holy Roman Empire and was not at this point controlled by the Hapsburgs, we have not included it in the "silver thalers of Germany."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 27.65 g.
Catalog reference: KM 204, Dav-4724; Resch 462.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
- Adolf Resch, Siebenburgische Münzen und Medaillen von 1538 bis Gegenwart. Hermannstadt, 1901 (reprinted in Montreal, 1965).
- [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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