Basel (15)81 60 kreuzer

Sincona sale 98, lot 4014

This specimen was lot 4014 in SINCONA Auction 98 (Zürich, May 2025), where it sold for 325 CHF (about US$472 including buyers' fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"SCHWEIZ Basel, Stadt und Kanton, Guldentaler 1577, Basel. Gutes sehr schön. Leicht gereinigt. (Switzerland, canton of Basel, Basel mint. Good Very Fine, lightly cleaned.)"

The guldenthaler was sixty kreuzer which, in the early part of the sixteenth century, was equal to a thaler. In the later part of the sixteenth century, the thaler rose to 72 kreuzer, making the guldenthaler 5/6 of a thaler. Later, in the seventeenth century, the thaler rose to ninety kreuzer, making the gulden (the "thaler" part of the name was dropped) two-thirds of a thaler. This type was struck 1564-88 along with a thirty kreuzer (half guldenthaler).

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specifications: 24 g, silver, 38 mm diameter, this specimen 24.20 g.

Catalog reference: Winterstein (Taler) 331, HMZ 2-60p.

Sources:

• Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
• Richter, Jürg, and Ruedi Kunzmann, Neuer HMZ-Katalog, Band 2: Die Münzen der Schweiz und Liechtensteins 15//16. Jahrhundert bis Gegenwart, Regenstauf, Germany: H. Gietl Verlag GmbH, 2006.
• Winterstein, Christian, Die Taler Von Basel, Basel: Schweizerischer Bankverein Basel, 1983.
• ^[1]Richter, Jurg, SINCONA Auction 98: The Konrad Bürki Collection - Part 3 (Swiss Cantonal Coins), Zürich: SINCONA AG, 2025.

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• (15)77 60 kreuzer (guldenthaler)
• (15)78 30 kreuzer (half guldenthaler)
• (15)78 60 kreuzer (guldenthaler)
• (15)81 30 kreuzer (half guldenthaler)
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• Coins and currency dated 1581