CNG 108, Lot: 948. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg (Herzogtum). Friedrich I. 1675-1691. AR 1½ Taler (60mm, 12h). Commemorating his admission into the Pegnitz-Schäfer Order. Gotha mint; Johann Gottfried Wichmannshausen, mintmaster, and Johann Georg Sorberger, engraver. Struck 1683-1688. Figure standing right, affixing coat-of-arms to tree; woodland creatures around; IGS below / In/ Memoriam/ Sempiter/nam in four lines in script; IG (hook) W below. Schnee 472; cf. KM 21; cf. Davenport 423. In NGC encapsulation, 4192045-004, graded XF 45. Toned.

From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection.