Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1729-EPH thaler Dav-2126

Stack's Bowers 2023 ANA sale, lot 55516

This specimen was lot 55516 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Pittsburgh, PA, August 2023), where it sold for $216. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Brunswick-Luneburg: Brunswick. Taler, 1729-EPH. Zellerfeld Mint. August Wilhelm. Extremely Fine Details -- Tooled. From the Robert C. Knepper Collection." This type was struck 1714-30 and is fairly common. A second thaler (Dav-2127), struck 1716-30, featured the leaping stallion, and a third (Dav-2135, rare) had a bust obverse. One thaler was thirty-six mariengroschen.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: Dav-2126; KM-739; Welter-2376.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1965.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, August 2023 Global Showcase Auction, World & Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.

Link to:

• 1727-EPH thaler, "leaping stallion"
• 1727-HCH thaler, bust obverse/wild man reverse
• 1728-EPH thaler, wild man reverse
• 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 1729