Sale: CNG 64, Lot: 1419. Estimate $300. Closing Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2003. Sold For $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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GERMANY, Augsburg. Civic issue, in the name of Leopold I. 1658-1705. AR Thaler (29.01 gm). Dated 1694. Johann Cristophe Holeisen, mintmaster. Crowned imperial eagle; countermark: rosette / Acorn on ornate plinth supported by two river gods; date and two horseshoes below. Davenport 5047; KM 105.1. EF. ($300)
From the Charles E. Weber Collection. Ex Stacks' auction (5 February 1949), lot 171, purchased for $4.10.
The small countermark may be a collector's cachet, indicating this coin was once a part of an early coin cabinet.