Austria 1572 guldenthaler Dav-52

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Künker sale 423, lot 39

This specimen was lot 39 in Künker Auction 423 (Osnabrück, July 2025), where it sold for €400 (about US$567 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"HABSBURGISCHE ERBLANDE-ÖSTERREICH · RÖMISCH-DEUTSCHES REICH, Erzherzog Ferdinand, 1564-1595. Guldentaler (60 Kreuzer) 1572, Hall. Geharnischtes Hüftbild r. mit Erzherzogshut, mit der Rechten das Zepter schulternd, die Linke am Schwertgriff, unten die Wertzahl 60//Gekröntes, mehrfeldiges Wappen (Ungarn, Böhmen / Kastilien und León / Österreich und Burgund), mit Mittelschild (Tirol), umher die Kette des Ordens vom Goldenen Vlies. Sehr schön-vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 280, Frankfurt/Main 1972, Nr. 1845. (Holy Roman Empire, archduke Ferdinand, 1564-95, guldenthaler or sixty kreuzer of 1572, Hall mint. Obverse: capped and armored half-length bust right, holding a scepter and sword, the value below; reverse: manifold arms of Hungary, Bohemia, Castile, Leon, Austria and Burgundy with the escutcheon of Tyrol, Order chain around, Very fine to extremely fine.)"

During this decade, the gulden diverged from the thaler, remaining at sixty kreuzer while the thaler rose to 72 kreuzer. The Hapsburgs minted guldenthalers at Hall (shown here), Vienna, Kuttenberg, Joachimsthal, Prague and elsewhere.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 24.6 g, 0.931 fine silver, this specimen 24,54 g.

Catalog reference: Dav-52; M./T. 204; Voglh. 90 III var.

Source:

  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
  • Heinz Moser and Heinz Tursky, Die Munzstatte Hall in Tirol, 2 vols. Innsbruck: Verlag Dr Rudolf Erhad, 1981.
  • [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 423: Coins and medals from Tyrol - The collection of Dipl.-Ing. Hermann Wohnlich., Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2025.

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