Cover Coin fro Goodman

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1004. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $6250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Braunschweig-Lüneburg. Christian Ludwig. Duke, 1641-1665. AR 3 Taler (87.07 g, 11h). Zellerfeld mint; Henning Schlüter, mintmaster. Dated 1665. Crowned monogram within laurel wreath surrounded by 14 crowned coats of arms; H S (mintmaster’s initials) and monogram flanking 3 stamped below / SINCERE • ET • CONSTANTER • AO : 1665, wild man standing facing, head left, holding tree trunk in right hand; mining scene in background. Welter 1501; Fiala 952; Knyphausen 2159; Davenport 192; KM 256.2. EF, toned, fields chased, minor mountmark at top. A well struck wild man multiple taler. Rare.

Ex Irving Goodman Collection (Goldberg 15, 4 June 2002), lot 344.