View source for Olmutz 1726 thaler Dav-1219A

[[Image:K406-4643.jpg|550px|thumb|Künker sale 406, lot 4643]]
[[Image:Moravia 1648.JPG|550px|thumb|Moravia in 1648, showing Kremsier and Olmutz]]

This specimen was lot 4643 in Künker sale 406 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €550 (about US$722 including buyer's fees). The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, <blockquote>"''DIE GEISTLICHKEIT IN DEN HABSBURGISCHEN ERBLANDEN, OLMUTZ, Wolfgang von Schrattenbach, 1711-1738. Reichstaler 1726. Feine Patina, üblicher Stempelfehler, vorzüglich.'' ([[Austria, Olmutz|bishopric of Olmutz]], Wolfgang von Schrattenbach, 1711-38, thaler of 1726. Fine patina, the usual die break, extremely fine.)"</blockquote> This type from 1726-27 is among the more available issues from this ecclesiastical state in Moravia, then part of [[Austria]], now the Czech Republic. This date comes with the obverse legend "SCHRATTEMBACHE:OL*" (shown here) or "SCHRATTEMBACHE:OL·". This example shows the same obverse die break as the plate coin in the SCWC.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

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

''Catalog reference:'' KM 422; [[Silver crowns by Davenport number|Dav-1219A]]; Suchomel/Videman 753. 

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Craig, William D., ''[[Germany|Germanic]] Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II,'' Mountain View, CA: 1954. 
* Davenport, John S., ''European Crowns, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed.,'' London: Spink & Son, 1964.
* Michael, Thomas, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016. 
* <sup>[1]</sup>Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, ''Katalog 406: Gold Coins | Coins and Medals from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. Löwenstein-Wertheim | German Coins after 1871, a. o. Patterns from the Coenen Collection,'' Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.

''Link to:''
* [[Olmutz 1724 thaler Dav-1218|1724 thaler]]
* [[Dietrichstein 1726 thaler Dav-1186]]
* [[Olmutz 1727 thaler Dav-1219|1727 thaler]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1726]]

[[Category: Selections from Kunker sale 403, 404, 405, 406]][[Category: Silver thalers of Germany]]