Magdeburg 1571 thaler Dav-9446
This specimen was lot 436 in Künker sale 263 (Osnabrück, June 2015), where it sold for €2,000 (about US$2,584 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Magdeburg, STADT Reichstaler (24 Groschen) 1571, mit Titel Maximilians II. RR Hübsche Patina, winz. Schrötlingsfehler, sehr schön. (Germany, city of Magdeburg, thaler of 1571, in the name of Maximilian II. Rare, nice patina, minor planchet cracks, very fine.)"
Davenport lists this one year type from the city of Magdeburg as rare. 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-9446, v. Schr. 1027.
- 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.
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