Basel 1640 thaler Dav-4609

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Spink sale 16005, lot 2280

This specimen was lot 2280 in Spink Auction 16005 (London, 27 June 2016) where it sold for 170 GBP (about US$224). The lot description noted: "Switzerland, Basel, Taler, 1640, city arms in cartouche, rev. eagle (DT 1337; Dav-4607; Divo 94), cleaned, about very fine." Basel struck numerous varieties of thalers (Dav-4606 thru -4611) in 1640, varying as follows:

  • Dav-4606: large arabesques framing the city arms; the cherub with wings up, down or furled;
  • Dav-4607: slimmer arabesques framing the city arms with a dot in front of "·MONETA";
  • Dav-4608: no arabesques around the city arms;
  • Dav-4609: slimmer arabesques with dots in the obverse legend instead of rosettes (shown here);
  • Dav-4610: arabesques tied up with ribbons and small rosettes in the obverse legend;
  • Dav-4611: city name spelled "BASILEESIS".

Since they are all worth about the same, most auction cataloguers don't bother to attribute them accurately Winterstein[1] lists W-78 thru W-103 for this issue, including some with arabesques on the eagle side, not mentioned in Davenport.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 28,62 g.

Catalog reference: Divo-94, Dav-4609, KM B94.3.

Source:

  • Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
  • Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
  • ♥Richter, Juerg, and Ruedi Kunzmann, Neuer HMZ-Katalog, Band 2: Die Münzen der Schweiz und Liechtensteins 15//16. Jahrhundert bis Gegenwart, Regenstauf, Germany: H. Gietl Verlag GmbH, 2006.
  • [1]Winterstein, Christian, Die Taler Von Basel, Basel: Schweizerischer Bankverein Basel, 1983.

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