See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration! or register with email

Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!

1/2 Thaler - Charles Frederick Ausbeutetaler

Issuer Duchy of Württemberg
Year 1740
Type Standard circulation coin
Value Log in to see details
Currency Log in to see details
Composition Log in to see details
Weight Log in to see details
Diameter Log in to see details
Thickness Log in to see details
Shape Log in to see details
Technique Log in to see details
Orientation Log in to see details
Engraver(s) Log in to see details
In circulation to Log in to see details
Reference(s) Log in to see details
Obverse description Log in to see details
Obverse script Log in to see details
Obverse lettering Log in to see details
Reverse description Log in to see details
Reverse script Latin
Reverse lettering Log in to see details
Edge Log in to see details
Mint Log in to see details
Mintage 1740 T/IT
Additional information

An Ausbeutetaler — literally a "yield thaler" — was struck from silver mined directly from a ruler's own territorial mines, and the designation was a deliberate political statement about resource sovereignty. Charles Frederick of Württemberg held the duchy only briefly before dying in 1744, making his mining issues a short window of production. The specific mines credited for this striking were the silver workings of the Württemberg ore districts, a source already in decline by the mid-eighteenth century.

KR#242a distinguishes this from related die pairings in the series.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE