Triton XVI, Lot: 1401. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (Herzogtum). August der Jüngere (the Younger). 1635-1666. AR Löser zu 5 Talern (41mm, 142.15 g, 3h). Commemorating his 88th birthday. Zellerfeld mint. Dated 10 April 1666. Capped bust facing, slightly right, being crowned by Justitia, standing right, holding sword and scales, and crowned with a wreath by Victory, standing left, holding palm frond; FAUSTUM/ IUSTITIÆ ET PACIS/ CONSORTIUM above; below scroll reading “AUGUSTUS/ D. G. DUX BR. ET LUNE:”; wreathed border / ALLES MIT BEDACHT/ ÆTAT : LXXVIII D. NAT : X APRIL, ornately plumed helm facing; all within wreath decorated with fourteen crowned coats-of-arms; mark of value ‘5’ punched below; wreathed border. Welter 780; Davenport 83. EF, lightly toned, slightly double struck, ‘1697’ faintly engraved over bust, holed and plugged (at 12 o’clock on obverse).

From the R.A.M. Collection.