Saxe-Meiningen 1830-L gulden

Künker sale 293, lot 1299

This specimen was lot 1299 in Künker sale 293 (Osnabrück, Germany, July 2017), where it sold for €240 (about US$324 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"SACHSEN, SACHSEN-MEININGEN, HERZOGTUM, VON 1735 BIS 1826 SACHSEN-COBURG-MEININGEN, Bernhard Erich Freund, 1803-1866. Gulden 1830. Herrliche Patina, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. Exemplar der Slg. Bernhard Terletzki. (Germany, duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Meiningen, Bernard Eric, 1803-66, gulden of 1830. Nice patina, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"

This type was struck 1830-33 in sufficient numbers to be occasionally available. The gulden was equal to two-thirds of a reichs thaler in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but shrank to four-sevenths of a union thaler after the Napoleonic Wars. This coin is only slightly larger than a French two francs. The later type (KM 142) was reduced in weight but raised in fineness, retaining the same amount of silver.

Recorded mintage: 9,118.

Specification: 12.83, 0.750 fine silver.

Catalog reference: AKS 186; J. 425, KM 130.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
• ^[1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Katalog 293: Münzen aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit u. a. die westfälischen Privatsammlungen Werner Bröker und Bernd Terletzki, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2017.

Link to:

• 1839 gulden
• Coins and currency dated 1830
• return to coins of German States, Saxe-Meiningen