Bavaria 1564 1/2 guldenthaler
This specimen was lot 3387 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabruck, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €700 (about US$916 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BAYERN, HERZOGTUM, SEIT 1623 KURFÜRSTENTUM, Albert V. der Großmütige, 1550-1579. 1/2 Guldentaler (30 Kreuzer) 1564, München, mit Titel Ferdinands I. RR Hübsche Patina, kl. Prägeschwäche, fast vorzüglich. (Germany, duchy of Bavaria, Albert V, 1550-79, half gulden thaler or thirty kreuzer of 1564, Munich mint, in the name of Ferdinand I. Rare, nice patina, a little weak, about extremely fine.)"
This is the period when the gulden, fixed at sixty kreuzer, diverged from the thaler, worth 72 kreuzer. The thaler would be raised to ninety kreuzer after the Thirty Years War.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 12,18 g.
Catalog reference: Hahn 44.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Cuhaj, George S., Thomas Michael and Douglas Nicol, Standard Catalog of German Coins, 1501-Present, 3rd Ed. Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
Link to:
- 1536 6 kreuzer
- Bavaria (1550-79) ducat Fr-183
- Bavaria 1562 10 kreuzer
- 1563 half gulden thaler
- Brandenburg-Franconia 1565 1/2 guldenthaler = 30 kreuzer
- 1572 gulden thaler = 60 kreuzer
- Coins and currency dated 1564
- return to coins of German States, Bavaria