Wolgast 1633 1/2 thaler

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Künker sale 335, lot 4210

This specimen was lot 4210 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabruck, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,700 (about US$2,225 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"POMMERN, WOLGAST, STADT. Unter Schweden. Gustav II. Adolf, 1631-1632. 1/2 Reichstaler 1633, auf die Überführung seiner Gebeine nach Schweden. Münzmeister Hinrich Martens. RR Schöne Patina, min. Schrötlingsfehler am Rand, sehr schön +. (Germany, city of Wolgast in Pomerania, under Swedish rule, Gustavus Adolphus, 1631-32, half thaler of 1633, on the removal of the king's bones to Sweden. Rare, nice patina, edge defects, very fine or better.)"

This commemorative was struck 1633-34 on the death of the Protestant hero Gustavus Adolphus. The series included quarter thaler thru quadruple thaler and double ducat to sixty ducat.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 14,45 g.

Catalog reference: KM M2, Ahlström 14; Hildebrand I, S. 193, 189.

Source:

  • 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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