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[[Image:Brandenburg K335-3719.jpg|550px|thumb|Künker sale 335, lot 3719]]

This specimen was lot 3719 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,600 (about US$2,094 including buyer's fees). The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, <blockquote>"''BRANDENBURG-PREUSSEN, BRANDENBURG, MARKGRAFSCHAFT, SEIT DEM 14. JAHRHUNDERT KURFÜRSTENTUM, Georg Wilhelm, 1619-1640. Reichstaler 1636, DK, Königsberg. Hübsche Patina, sehr schön.'' ([[Germany]], electorate of [[German States, Brandenburg|Brandenburg]], George William, 1619-40, thaler of 1636, Königsberg mint. Handsome patina, very fine.)"</blockquote> This type of 1635-36 is scarce, like most Brandenburger thalers of the seventeenth century. George William spent most of his reign in Königsberg in Prussia. His subjects, left to the mercies of the pillaging armies of the Thirty Years War, were likely not grateful.

''Recorded mintage:'' 5,556.

''Specification:'' silver, this specimen 28.50 g.

''Catalog reference:'' KM 156, [[Silver crowns by Davenport number|Dav-6151]]; Marienb. 1523; Olding 23 b.  

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014. 
* Davenport, John S., ''German Secular Talers, 1600-1700,'' Frankfurt: Numismatischer Verlag, 1976.
* <sup>[1]</sup>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.

''Link to:''
* [[Brandenburg 1630 1/2 thaler|1630 half thaler]]
* [[Brandenburg 1630 thaler Dav-6141|1630 thaler]]
* [[Brandenburg 1631-LM 2 thaler Dav-6142A|1631-LM double thaler]]
* [[Brandenburg 1635-DK 1/2 thaler|1635-DK half thaler]]
* [[Brandenburg 1638-DK ducat Fr-2183|1638-DK ducat]]
* [[Brandenburg 1641-LM 1/2 thaler KM-183|1641 half thaler]]
* [[Brandenburg 1641-LM thaler Dav-6167|1641-LM thaler]]
* [[Brandenburg 1648-CT thaler Dav-6182|1648-CT thaler]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1636]]

[[Category:Selections from Kunker sale 335, 336]][[Category: Silver thalers of Germany]]