Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1571. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Harz. 1701-1767. AR Baptismal Taler (29.18 gm, 1h). Zellerfeld mint, Ernst Peter Hecht, mintmaster, 1723-1731. Christ being anointed by John the baptist in the river Jordan, Biblical quotations around / Biblical quotations in 10 lines and in margins; EPH below. Davenport 2935. Lustrous EF. ($500)

A trace of visible undertype can be seen on the reverse, between 11h and 12h:...BR•& LVN.... It appears the best candidates for the undertype are talers of Augustus Wilhelm of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1714-1731).