Magdeburg 1609-GM thaler Dav-5474

Künker sale 263, lot 378

This specimen was lot 378 in Künker sale 263 (Osnabrück, June 2015), where it sold for €850 (about US$1,098 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"Magdeburg, ERZBISTUM Christian Wilhelm von Brandenburg, 1598-1608-1631. Reichstaler 1609, Halle. Hübsche Patina, min. Schrötlingsfehler am Rand, sehr schön Exemplar der Auktion Fritz Rudolf Künker 98, Osnabrück 2005, Nr. 3883. (Germany, archbishopric of Magdeburg, Christian William of Brandenburg, 1598-1608-1631, thaler of 1609, Halle mint. Nice patina, tiny edge crack, very fine. From Kunker sale 98, lot 3883)"

The SCWC lists this type of 1608-12 as somewhat available but less so than the earlier Dav-5471. By the second half of the sixteenth century, the archbishopric of Magdeburg was completely converted to Lutheranism yet the ecclesiastical state was not abolished. Instead, it became a puppet state of the elector of Brandenburg, who either appointed himself or one of his close relatives archbishop. Brandenburg annexed it outright in 1680.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: Dav-5474, v. Schr. 412, KM 9.

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 Church and City Talers, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1967.
• ^[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.

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