Saxe-Alt-Weimar 1583 thaler Dav-9770

Künker sale 293, lot 1284

This specimen was lot 1284 in Künker sale 293 (Osnabrück, Germany, July 2017), where it sold for €320 (about US$431 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"SACHSEN, SACHSEN-WEIMAR, HERZOGTUM, AB 1741 SACHSEN, Friedrich Wilhelm und Johann, 1573-1603. Reichstaler 1583, Saalfeld. Attraktives Exemplar, sehr schön +. Exemplar der Slg. Bernhard Terletzki. Exemplar der Lagerliste Fritz Rudolf Künker "Sonderangebot", Osnabrück 1999, Nr. 441. (Germany, duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Frederick William and John, 1573-1603, thaler of 1583 Saalfeld mint. Attractive example, very fine or bette.)"

This type is listed for 1582-86. The division of Erfurt in 1572 permanently splintered Ernestine Thuringia into fragments which were not reunited until the establishment of the Weimar Republic in 1920.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: Dav-9770, Schnee, 238.

Source:

• Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1500-1600, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1979.
• Nicol, N. Douglas, Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of German Coins, 1501-Present, 3rd ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
• Gernot Schnee, Sächsiche Taler, 1500-1800. Frankfurt Am Main, P. N. Schulten, 1982.
• Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
• ^[1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Katalog 293: Münzen aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit u. a. die westfälischen Privatsammlungen Werner Bröker und Bernd Terletzki, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2017.

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• 1582 thaler
• 1585 half thaler
• 1587 thaler
• Coins and currency dated 1583
• return to coins of German States, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach