Hannover 1702-RB thaler Dav-2065

Stack's Bowers 2023 NYINC sale, lot 41353

This specimen was lot 41353 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2023), where it sold for $504. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Brunswick-Luneburg: Hannover. Taler, 1702-RB. Zellerfeld Mint. Georg Ludwig (future George I of Great Britain). PCGS-55. From the Robert C. Knepper Collection." This type was issued 1700-11 (confusingly, the 1700 issue is catalogued as Dav-6653). Wild man thalers were issued from this locality as late as 1755. George Ludwig was promoted to king of England on the death of his cousin Anne Stuart in 1714. This is the period when the electorate ceased to be known as Brunswick-Luneburg and called Hannover instead.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: Dav-2065; KM-35; Welter-2143.

Source:

• Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1965.
• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The January 2023 NYINC Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Taraszka Collection and the Mark and Dottie Salton Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

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