v23_1432 - GERMANY - AUGSBURG - FERDINAND III Thaler 1641 Augsbourg

GERMANY - AUGSBURG - FERDINAND III Thaler 1641 Augsbourg VF

MONNAIES 23 (2004)
Starting price : 60.00 €
Estimate : 130.00 €
Realised price : 124.00 €
Number of bids : 13
Maximum bid : 144.00 €

Type : Thaler

Date: 1641

Mint name / Town : Augsbourg

Metal : silver

Diameter : 43,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 28,72 g.

Edge : feuillue

Coments on the condition:

Ce thaler a été fortement astiqué et même frotté dans les champs. Petit paillage sur la droite de l’écu de France et légères stries d’ajustage sur le buste du roi

Catalogue references :

Dav.5039 - KM/WC.17/77 p. 284

Obverse

Obverse legend : (ROSE) IMP: CÆS: FERD: III. P. F. GER: HVN: BOH: REX..

Obverse description : Buste de l’empereur lauré, cuirassé et drapé à droite.

Obverse translation : (Avec l’autorisation de frappe de l’empereur césar Ferdinand III, roi de Germanie, Hongrie et Bohême).

Reverse

Reverse legend : .AVGVSTA. VIN-DELICORVM..

Reverse description : Vue de la ville d’Augsbourg sous un ange ; une pomme de pin sur une colonne accosté du millésime 1641 contenu dans un fleuron.

Historical background

GERMANY - AUGSBURG - FERDINAND III

(1627-02/04/1657)

Ferdinand III was born in Graz on July 13, 1608. He is the son and successor of Emperor Ferdinand II and was crowned King of Bohemia in 1625 and of Hungary in 1627. He became Emperor in 1637, after the death of his father and continued the Thirty Years War which opposed it to the French and the Swedes. In 1648, he was forced to sign the Treaty of Westphalia, the main consequence of which was the religious division of Germany and therefore the political weakening of the Emperor. During his lifetime, he had his eldest son, Ferdinand IV, elected as King of the Romans. Ferdinand died in 1654 and was never emperor. In Vienna, on April 2, 1657, his father, Ferdinand III, followed him to the grave.