Bavaria 1572 guldenthaler
This specimen was lot 3386 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabruck, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,300 (about US$1,701 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BAYERN, HERZOGTUM, SEIT 1623 KURFÜRSTENTUM, Albert V. der Großmütige, 1550-1579. Guldentaler (60 Kreuzer) 1572, München, mit Titel Maximilians II. R Hübsche Patina, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (Germany, duchy of Bavaria, Albert V, 1550-79, gulden thaler or sixty kreuzer of 1572, Munich mint, in the name of Ferdinand I. Rare, nice patina, very fine to 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 24,56 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-10006; Hahn 48.
- Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
- 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 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.
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