Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1285. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Straßburg (Stadt). AR Taler Klippe. Centennial of the Reformation issue. Dated 1617. + OMNIS (rosette) TERRA (rosette) ADORET (rosette) DEVM (rosette) ET (rosette) PSALLAT (rosette) EI :/(florette) LVX (rosette) POST (rosette) TENEBRAS (rosette) MDXVII :, coat-of-arms of Straßburg / (arabesque) PRO (arabesque)/ RELIGIONIS •/CENTVM • ANTE •/ANNOS • DIVINITVS/RESTITVTÆ • MEMO/RIA • NOVIQVE • SECV •/LI • FELICI • AVSPICIO/S • P • Q • ARGENTOR •/F • F • A (annulet) MDCXVII •/CAL • NOVEMB • in ten lines; arabesque below; all with linear and reeded border. Cf. Engel & Lehr 609; Davenport 5846 note. In an NGC slab graded AU 50, toned.

Strassburg adopted Protestantism during the Reformation and, as a result, attracted immigrants from areas of Europe where non-Catholics were persecuted. The city soon became a major center of learning and bookprinting. This taler commemorates the centennial of the Protestant Reformation and celebrates Strassburg’s development as a focus of Protestant teaching and practice.