Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1740-BID 2/3 thaler KM-903

Künker sale 386, lot 5069

This specimen was lot 5069 in Künker sale 386 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €320 (about US$414 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"BRAUNSCHWEIG-WOLFENBÜTTEL, FÜRSTENTUM, Karl I. 1735-1780. 2/3 Taler 1740, Braunschweig. Feine Patina, leichter Doppelschlag, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Charles I, 1735-80, two-thirds thaler of 1740, Brunswick mint. Fine patina, lightly double struck, very fine to extremely fine.)"

This gulden was struck 1736-37 and 1740. It comes with (shown here) or without (KM 898) the value below the stallion. Both are scarce.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 13.33 g, the weight of 4/9 thaler.

Catalog reference: KM 903, Dav-361; Welter 2731.

Source:

• Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
• ^[1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 386: Brakteaten | Mainz | Bibliothek Prof. Dr. Niklot Klüßendorf | Mittelalter und Neuzeit | Goldprägungen | Deutsche Münzen ab 1871, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2023.

Link to:

• 1737-BID "leaping stallion" ⅔ thaler
• 1738-BID ducat, leaping stallion reverse
• 1739-IBH 4 mariengroschen, "leaping stallion"
• 1739-C 6 mariengroschen
• 1739-IBH 12 mariengroschen
• 1740-IBH 6 mariengroschen, wild man reverse
• 1740-IBH 24 mariengroschen, wild man reverse
• 1742-IBH 24 mariengroschen
• 1742-IBH thaler, wild man
• Coins and currency dated 1740