Bavaria 1803 thaler Dav-541

Kunker sale 263, lot 612

This specimen was lot 612 in Künker sale 263 (Osnabrück, June 2015), where it sold for €2,400 (about US$3,100 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"Bavaria, SEIT 1623 KURFÜRSTENTUM, Maximilian I. (IV.) Joseph, 1799-1806-1825. Konv.-Taler 1803.. Jahrgang von größter Seltenheit. Sehr schön. (Germany, electorate of Bavaria, Maximilian IV Joseph, 1799-1825, convention thaler of 1803. Very rare date, very fine.)"

This issue of 1802-03 is among the last minted before Napoleon promoted Maximilian from Elector to King.

Recorded mintage: unknown but rare.

Specification: 28.06 g, .833 fine silver, lettered edge.

Catalog reference: Dav-541; AKS 5; Kahnt 52; Thun 34, KM 657.2 (formerly KM 320.2).

Source:

• ^[1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 263, The Friedrich Popken collection of gold and silver coinages | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the collection of Ernst Otto Horn, part III, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2015.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Davenport, John S., European Crowns and Talers, Since 1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1964.

Link to:

• 1802 thaler, "D·G·MAX·IOSEPH·"
• 1802 thaler, "D·G·MAXIM·IOSEPH·"
• Saxe-Meiningen (1803)-L thaler Dav-2734
• 1803-CD thaler
• 1804 thaler
• 1805 thaler
• Coins and currency dated 1803
• return to coins of German States, Bavaria