Julich-Berg 1567 thaler Dav-8933

Künker sale 263, lot 969

This specimen was lot 969 in Künker sale 263 (Osnabrück, June 2015), where it sold for €480 (about US$620 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"JÜLICH-BERG, HERZOGTUM Wilhelm V. 1539-1592. Taler 1567, Mülheim. Kl. Schrötlingsfehler, sehr schön. (Germany, duchy of Julich-Berg, William V, 1539-92, thaler of 1567, Mulheim mint. Planchet cracks, very fine.)"

The duke of Berg, also duke of Cleve and Julich, count of Mark and Ravensburg, ruled a substantial territory in the lower Rhineland surrounding the archbishopric of Cologne. This type was issued 1567-74. When the last duke died in 1609, Brandenburg and Pfalz fought a war over the legacy and in 1624 partitioned it, an opening act of the Thirty Years War.

Recorded mintage: 63,000 (including Dav-8932 and Dav-8933A).

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM MB25, Dav-8933; Noss 331.

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]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.

Link to:

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