Wurttemberg 1758 1/6 thaler
This specimen was lot 4479 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabruck, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €360 (about US$471 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"WÜRTTEMBERG, WÜRTTEMBERG, HERZOGTUM, SEIT 1806 KÖNIGREICH. Karl Eugen, 1744-1793. 1/6 Taler 1758, Stuttgart. Prägung für Auslandszahlungen. Sogenanntes Kriegsgeld. R Feine Patina, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (Germany, duchy of Wurttemberg, Charles Eugene, 1744-93, one-sixth thaler of 1758, Stuttgart mint. Struck for foreign payments, so-called "war money".)"
This type has a bust obverse. Another one-sixth thaler struck in 1758 (KM 404) has a monogram obverse. During this period, as the reichs thaler was superseded by the convention thaler, that the one-sixth thaler went from fifteen kreuzer to twenty kreuzer.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 4.40 g, silver, this specimen 4.47 g.
Catalog reference: KM 403, Klein/Raff 351.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [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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