Wurttemberg 1777-DFH thaler Dav-2867
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This specimen was lot 4486 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,800 (about US$2,356 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"WÜRTTEMBERG, WÜRTTEMBERG, HERZOGTUM, SEIT 1806 KÖNIGREICH. Karl Eugen, 1744-1793. Konv.-Taler 1777, Stuttgart. Mit Laubrand. Vorzüglich +. (Germany, duchy of Wurttemberg, Charles Eugene, 1744-93, convention thaler of 1777, Stuttgart mint. Extremely fine or better.)"
This type was also struck in 1779. It is expensive but more available than many other Wurttember thalers of the eighteenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 28.06 g, 0.833 fine silver, this specimen 27.99 g.
Catalog reference: KM 433, Dav-2867; Klein/Raff 372.1.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1965.
- [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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