Saxe-Alt-Weimar 1575 thaler Dav-9766

from the Stack's Bowers 2017 ANA sale, lot 22398

This specimen was lot 22398 in Stack's Bowers ANA Auction (Denver, CO, August 2017), where it sold for $399.50. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Saxe-Old-Weimar. Taler, 1575. Friedrich Wilhelm I and Johann III (1573-1605). PCGS EF-45 Secure Holder. Well struck with moderate wear and deep old tone." This particular version of Saxe-Weimar would lapse on the duke's death in 1605. It would be revived several times before World War One wiped away all the German principalities. This type of 1574-78 is scarce but not rare.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: MB-29; Dav-9766.

Source:

• Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1500-1600, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1979.
• Nicol, N. Douglas, Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of German Coins, 1501-Present, 3rd ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
• Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio and Chris Chatigny, The August 2017 Denver ANA Auction: Ancients, Selections from The Richard Stuart Collection & World Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.

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