2 Thalers - August Death of August

Features

Issuer	Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (German States)
Książe	Augustus the Younger (August der Jüngere) (1635-1666)
Type	Circulating commemorative coins
Year	1666
Value	2 Thalers
Currency	Thaler (1499-1814)
Composition	Srebro
Weight	56.67 g
Shape	Okrągły
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 295300
References	KM# 483 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , Dav BrSL# LS93 John Stewart Davenport; 1956. Oversize Multiple Talers of the Brunswick Duchies and Saxe-Lauenburg (1^st Edition). Self-published, Galesburg, Illinois, United States. , Welter# 791 Gerhard Welter. Die Münzen der Welfen seit Heinrich dem Löwen. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany (3 volumes).

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Commemorative issue

Śmierć Augusta II. Automatically translated

Obverse

Script: łaciński

Lettering:
NATUS
AO 1579 10 APR
REXIT
DUCATET COMITAT
SUOS ANNOS XXXI
OBIIT
17 SEPT AO MDCLXVI
VIXIT
ANNOS LXXXVII
MENSES V
DIES VII
DEI GRATIA AUGUSTUS DUX BRUNOVICENSIUM ET LUNAEBURGENS

Reverse

Czaszka pod drzewem Automatically translated

Script: łaciński

Lettering:
QUAE LAETA ERON DE VIREBAM
RIGUI
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA
OMNIA NON NISI PROVIDO ET VEGETO CONSILIO
2

Mint

Zellerfeld, modern-day Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1666

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Künker Auction 437 Lot 124	28 Jan 2026	XF	USD 34 836.08 (EUR 30 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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