Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1730-IHT 1/8 thaler

Stephen Album sale 43, lot 2245

This specimen was lot 2245 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $132. The catalog description^[1] noted, "BRUNSWICK-WOLFENBÜTTEL: August Wilhelm, 1714-1731, AR 1/8 thaler, 1730, initials IHT, 200th Anniversary of Augsburg Confession, VF-EF, ex SARC Auction 26, Lot 1152." The denomination was not regularly issued by this state, which more commonly struck one-twelfth or one-sixth thalers. A few one-eighth thalers with the "wild man" reverse were made in the 1720's and this one with the "leaping stallion" reverse from 1730 only. No more were made thereafter.

Recorded mintage: unknown but scarce.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM-796.

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.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 43, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.

Link to:

• 1715-HH "wild man" ⅛ thaler
• 1727 "leaping stallion" ⅓ thaler
• 1727 "leaping stallion" thaler
• 1729 ducat
• 1730-IHT thaler, on the bicentennial of the Augsburg Confession
• 1731-IHT thaler, on the death of Augustus William
• Coins and currency dated 1730