Saxe-Old-Gotha 1566 thaler Dav-9754

Ponterio sale 169, lot 10342

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 10342 in Ponterio sale 169 (Baltimore, November 2012), where it sold for $646. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Saxe-Old-Gotha. Taler, 1566. NGC XF-45. Johann Friedrich II & Johann Wilhelm (1565-67)." Davenport lists this type for 1566-67 and notes it as fairly common. Saxe-Neu-Gotha dates from 1640. 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-9754; KM-MB12.

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.
• Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
• Gernot Schnee, Sächsiche Taler, 1500-1800. Frankfurt Am Main, P. N. Schulten, 1982.
• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio sale 169: The November 2012 Baltimore Auction, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers, LLC, 2012.

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