Wurttemberg 1681-M 1/2 thaler
This specimen was lot 4455 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabruck, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €11,000 (about US$14,395 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"WÜRTTEMBERG, WÜRTTEMBERG, HERZOGTUM, SEIT 1806 KÖNIGREICH. Friedrich Karl, 1677-1693. 1/2 Reichstaler 1681, Stuttgart. Geharnischtes Brustbild r. mit Feldherrnbinde und Spitzenjabot//Gekröntes, vierfeldiges Wappen, umher Lorbeerkranz. Von großer Seltenheit. Hübsche Patina, min. berieben, fast vorzüglich. (Germany, duchy of Wurttemberg, Frederick Charles, 1677-93, half thaler of 1681, Stuttgart mint. Obverse: armored bust right with cravat; reverse: crowned, quartered arms in laurel wreath. Very rare, handsome patina, lightly polished, about extremely fine.)"
Another rare type from Wurttemberg, which issued also no coinage in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 14.50 g.
Catalog reference: KM 245, Klein/Raff 615.
- 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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