Transylvania 1659-CV thaler Dav-4758

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Künker sale 263, lot 2130

This specimen was lot 2130 in Künker sale 263 (Osnabrück, June 2015), where it sold for €8,000 (about US$10,335 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"SIEBENBÜRGEN, FÜRSTEN Achatius Barcsai, 1658-1660. Reichstaler 1659, CV, Klausenburg. Hüftbild r. mit Dolman (Uniformjacke), mit der Rechten das Zepter schulternd//Gekröntes, verziertes Wappen mit dem Familienwappen Barcsai als Mittelschild, zu den Seiten das Münzstättenzeichen C - V (Colos-Vár = Klausenburg). Von großer Seltenheit. Feine Patina, sehr schön/sehr schön-vorzüglich. (principality of Transylvania, Achatius Barcsai, 1658-60, thaer of 1659, Klausenburg mint. Obverse: jackets half length bust to right, holding scepter; reverse: crowned, quartered arms with Barcsai arms on escutcheon divides the mintmark "C-V". Of the greatest rarity, fine patina, very fine to extremely fine.)"

Like most coins of Transylvania, this type (struck 1659-60 only) is scarce and expensive. 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." Achatius Barcsai was a short-lived Ottoman puppet in the three-way war between the Austrians, the Turks and the native elite. The SCWC notes many varieties for 1659, including Dav-4755, -4756, -4758 and -4758A (a klippe version of the thaler shown here).

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 28.46 g.

Catalog reference: Dav-4758; Resch 5 A, KM 320.

Source:

  • 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 Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 263, The Friedrich Popken collection of gold and silver coinages | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the collection of Ernst Otto Horn, part III, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2015.

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