Nurnberg 1573 guldiner
This specimen was lot 2680 in Sincona sale 57 (Zürich, May 2019), where it sold for 1,200 CHF (about US$1,428 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"DEUTSCHLAND | Nurnberg, City, Reichsguldiner 1573, Nürnberg. Titel Maximilians II. Gutes vorzüglich. Überdurchschnittliche Erhaltung. (Germany, city of Nuremberg, guldiner of 1573, Nuremberg mint, struck in the name of Maximilian II. Good extremely fine, Extraordinary condition.)"
This coin is an early gulden, which was always fixed at sixty kreuzer. The gulden was originally equal to a thaler, then five-sixths of a thaler, then defined as two-thirds of a thaler in the seventeenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver; this specimen 24.67 g.
Catalog reference: Kellner 142. Dav-10032.
- 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.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [1]Richter, Jürg, Sincona Auction 57: World Coins and Medals, Coins and Medals from Switzerland, Zürich: SINCONA AG, 2019.
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