From the Virgil M. Brand Collection

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1037. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Quedlinburg (Abtei). Dorothea von Sachsen. Abbess, 1610-1617. AR Broad Taler (28.96 g, 12h). Heinrich Löhr, mintmaster. Dated 1617. • DOROTHE : D : G • ABBATIS • QVEDELB : DVCIS : SAXO • 16 - 17, ornate coat of arms surmounted by three helmets; H L (mintmaster’s initials) to left / HEINR : AVC • D : G RO • IM • SAX DVX • ABB : QVEDLB : FVNDAT, King Heinrich I standing half left, holding sword in right hand and globus cruciger in left; city view of Quedlinburg behind; dates of his birth and death, NAT - 876 and MOR - 936, across field. Schnee 639; Merseburger 4375; Davenport 374. Good VF, toned, small flan crack. Rare.

Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection (Leu 69 5 June 1997), lot 4922; Nathusius Collection (A. Cahn 18 May 1907), lot 355.

Struck from the same dies as the AV 8 Ducat (see previous lot)