| Katz Coins Notes & Supplies Europe s.r.o. > E-Auction 69 | Auction date: 29 October 2022 |
| Lot number: 21 Price realized: 31 EUR (Approx. 31 USD) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Bohemia Schlick Joachim Taler 1520 (1967) Restrike Silver 21.85 g., 42 mm; Medieval Czechoslovakia Joachim Thaler 1520 Restrike; This is a replica of an old Bohemian coin known as the Joachimstaler. Saint (Sanctvs) Joachim (Ioachim), according to Catholic tradition, was the father of Mary, mother of Jesus. He is shown on the front. A lion of Bohemia, the old traditional Czech lands, is shown on the back; UNC with nice toning Starting price: 5 EUR |  |
Match 1:
| Sovereign Rarities Ltd > Auction 8 | Auction date: 15 February 2023 |
| Lot number: 238 Price realized: 8,000 GBP (Approx. 9,603 USD / 8,995 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Austria, Holy Roman Empire, Maximilian I (1459-1479) as Duke of Austria and Burgundy and Maria, Duchess of Burgundy (1457-1482), silver Thaler, dated 1477, Marriage of Guldiner, Hall mint, Tyrol, design by Ulrich Ursentaler, young bust of Maximilian I right dividing inscription ETA TIS 19, Latin legend and beaded borders surrounding, MAXIMILIAN 9. MAGNANIM 9. ARCHIDVX. AVSTRIE. BVRGVND, rev. young bust of Maria of Burgundy right dividing inscription ETAT IS. 20, date below, Latin legend and beaded borders surrounding, MARIA. KAROLI. FILIA. HERES. BVRGVND. BRAB. CONIVGES, edge plain, 30.64g (Egg 15; M.T. 83; Schulten 4474; Voglh. 3). A stunning example of this exceedingly rare and significant coin. Struck on a slightly domed flan with some light nicks in fields, a small scratch on neck of reverse portrait, traces of residual mint lustre around the details, overall about extremely fine, and one of the best examples of this type. The Latin legends translate on the obverse as "Maximilian the Great, Archduke of Austria and Burgundy," and on the reverse as "Mary, Hereditary Daughter of Charles, Burgundy and Brabant through Marriage." The inscription on both sides translates as "Aged 19/20" respectively. Maximilian was born at Wiener Neustadt on the 22nd of March, 1459. His father, Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, named him after an obscure saint, Maximilian of Tebessa, who Frederick believed had once warned him of imminent peril in a dream. His wife, Mary of Burgundy, was born in Brussels at the ducal castle of Coudenberg, to Charles the Bold, then known as the Count of Charolais, and his wife Isabella of Bourbon. Her birth, according to the court chronicler Georges Chastellain, was attended by a clap of thunder ringing from the otherwise clear twilight sky. Her godfather was Louis, Dauphin of France, in exile in Burgundy at that time; he named her for his mother, Marie of Anjou. As she grew older, Mary was considered the most beautiful bachelorette among the European nobility, and had suitors lining themselves up to propose. She soon made her choice by selecting the young Maximilian. Their marriage took place at Ghent on the 19th of August, 1477. At the time, she was 20 years old, while he was two years younger. Their marriage was short-lived, however, after Mary suffered a fatal injury whilst horse riding in 1482. It is unquestionable that Maximilian was deeply in love with Maria, with the mere mention of her name bringing him to tears even in his dying days, nearly 40 years later. Following the death of his third wife, Bianca Maria Sforza (the once Duchess of Savoy) in 1511, Maximilian ordered his chief engraver, Ulrich Ursentaler, to design and mint a silver Thaler commemorating his marriage to Maria. The resulting coin was this magnificent piece of craftsmanship, and a rare expression of love from one of Europe's most influential rulers. Starting price: 8000 GBP |  |
Match 2:
| Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio) > Collector's Choice November 2022 Auction | Auction date: 14 November 2022 |
| Lot number: 75007 Price realized: 220 USD (Approx. 213 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: GREAT BRITAIN. Pope Julius III/Restitution of the Papacy in England Bronze Medal, "Year V (1554)" (ca. late 19th Century). GEM UNCIRCULATED. cf. MI-70/15 (for prototype); Eimer-31C; Mazio-Unlisted; cf. Lincoln 553-5 (same). After G. Cavino. Diameter: 45mm; Weight: 36.80 gms. Commemorating the brief restitution of Anglo Popery. Obverse: IVLIVS TERTIVS PONT MAX A V, bust right, wearing zucchetto and mantum; Reverse: ANGLIA RESVRGES (England, though, shall rise again...), Pope Julius standing left, raising personification of England kneeling right, casting aside bow and quiver; in background, Cardinal Reginald Pole and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V standing facing; to right, Philip and Mary standing facing one another; in three lines in exergue, VT NVNC / NOVISSIMO / DIE (...as now, at the last day). Edge: Plain. Yellow-brown surfaces. A seldom seen restrike of this RARE and historically interesting type. On account of Henry VIII's quarrel with Rome and Pope Clemens VII, Henry was excommunicated and thus installed himself as the head of the newly established Anglican Church. When Mary (Henry's daughter by his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon) became queen, she wished to restore the religion of her mother and cousin, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI (Carlos I of Spain), returning the Catholic Church to England. That very act is represented on this restrike medal, with Pope Julius III raising up the kneeling personification of England, while he is surrounded Reginald Pole (the final Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury), Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor and Mary's first cousin), Philip (Mary's husband and first cousin once removed), and Mary herself, clutching her seemingly swollen stomach in the hope of producing an heir. In the end, the pregnancy would be false and Mary would fail to have issue. Meanwhile, her reign-and the restoration of Catholicism to England-would end just a few years later in 1558 with her death at the age of 42 and the accession of her Anglican half-sister, Elizabeth I, who would return the primacy of the Church of England. Estimate: $100 - $200 |  |
Match 3:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd. > Auction XXVII | Auction date: 22 March 2023 |
| Lot number: 1096 Price realized: 2,600 GBP (Approx. 3,180 USD / 2,947 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Italian States, Sicilia (Sicily, Kingdom). Frederick I (later Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor) and Constance as Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, AV Tari. Amalfi mint, November 1198. Outer circle Kufic legend: 'struck in his reign in the year five hundred ninety-five'; inner circle Latin legend: ⧾ FRE REX SICILIE around palm tree in fruit in central circle / Outer rim Kufic legend: 'struck in the year one-hundred one-thousand ninety and eight; inner rim Kufic legend: 'Constance imperatrix of the Romans', around Latin cross in central circle. L. Travaini, 'Le monete Sveve con legend arabe nel Regno di Sicilia (1194-1220)' in RIN 1986, p.136, 2; MIR 36; MEC 14, p.166 fig. 3b; CNI XVII, p.10, 1, pl. 1, 14; G. Sambon, Repertario generale, 1113; M. Guglielmi, La monetazione degli Svevi nell'Italia meritionale, Serravalle RSM, 2000, p.67, 1; D. Spinelli, Monete cufiche, Napoli 1844, pl. 20, 1; R. Levinson, The Early Dated Coins of Europe 1234-1500, Clifton 2007, p.258; Friedberg 51. 0.87g, 24mm. Mint State; edge clipped. Of the greatest rarity and numismatic importance. This remarkable scyphate-shaped tari bears two dates: Hegira 595 and Christian era 1198, the earliest Anno Domini date ever recorded on a coin, which according to Philip Grierson and L. Travaini commemorates the investiture formally granted to Frederick II and Constance by Pope Innocent III on 19 November of that year. In return the pope received an annual cens of 1,000 'schifati', cf. MEC pp.165-6. Amalfi was an independent republic from the 7th century that managed to extract itself from Byzantine vassalage in 839 and first elected an independent duke in 958. By 944 Amalfitan merchants were already present at Constantinople, trading with Egypt by the late 10th century and rivalling Pisa and Genova in its domestic prosperity and maritime trade with Asia before the rise of the Venice. In 1073 the republic fell to the Norman countship of Apulia and was granted many rights and attained great wealth. In about 1080, Amalfitans founded a hospice for pilgrims in Islamic occupied Jerusalem, from which the Order of the Hospital (St. John of Jerusalem) later developed. Under Roger II in 1131, Amalfi passed into the kingdom of Sicily and by 1220 the Empire of Frederick II. In matters of medieval culture, Amalfi was famous for its multiculturalism, flourishing schools of law and mathematics, maritime code and the reputed Amalfitan Flavio Gioia, who in about 1300 was considered first marine pilot to have introduced the sailor's compass to Western navigation. The date on the Amalfi tari must be connected to the fact that Islamic coinage had been dated from the time of the 5th Caliph, 'Abd al-Malik in the 77th year of the Hagira, the migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib in AD 696/7. Amalfi had been within the Islamic monetary sphere strongly influenced by the Emirate of Sicily since the 10th century, in which the standard gold unit was the gold Tarì (meaning "fresh" or "newly minted money"), the Christian designation of Ruba'i or quarter Dinar with the ideal weight of 1.05g of gold. The idea that coins should bear a date of issue referencing the time passed since the birth of Christ was not widespread in Europe until the mid 16th century. While the learned Scythian monk, Dionysus Exiguus from Tomis, formulated the Anno Domini calendar in the 6th century and is still used to enumerate the years of both the Julian and Gregorian calendars, it was not until the advent of this issue in 1198 that European coinage was so dated. This dating system was not utilised again until 1234 by the bishopric of Roskilde on its silver deniers and in 1251 in Arabic script on the Islamic styled silver coinage by the crusader city of Acre. In the spring of 1250 the papal legate Odo of Châteauroux arrived in Syria and was scandalized to learn that the Franks were striking gold and silver coins with the name and dates of the Muslim Prophet and had them substituted with purely Christian legends and dates in the name of the Messiah, albeit written in Arabic to maintain acceptability in the region. Much later from 1372 dated groschen in the name of Charlemagne were struck on a regular basis at Aachen. Frederick II, son of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI of the Hohenstaufen dynasty and Constance the posthumous daughter of Roger II de Hauteville and heiress to the Norman kings of Sicily, was an infant of only three years of age when his father died and was crowned king of Sicily on papal authority at Palermo cathedral on 17 May 1198. Frederick's minority under his mother only lasted five months as the regent died on 27 November 1198. Estimate: 3000 GBP |  |
Match 4:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd. > Islamic, Medieval and World Sale 3 | Auction date: 17 March 2023 |
| Lot number: 430 Price realized: 2,800 GBP (Approx. 3,391 USD / 3,192 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Italian States, Sicilia (Sicily, Kingdom). Frederick I (later Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor) and Constance, as Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, AV Tari. Amalfi mint, November 1198. Outer circle Kufic legend: 'struck in his reign in the year five hundred ninety-five'; inner circle Latin legend: ⧾ FRE REX SICILIE around palm tree in fruit in central circle / Outer rim Kufic legend: 'struck in the year one-hundred one-thousand ninety and eight; inner rim Kufic legend: 'Constance imperatrix of the Romans', around Latin cross in central circle. L. Travaini, 'Le monete Sveve con legend arabe nel Regno di Sicilia (1194-1220)' in RIN 1986, p. 136, 2; MIR 36; MEC 14, p. 166 fig. 3b; CNI XVII, p. 10, 1, pl. 1, 14; G. Sambon, Repertario generale, 1113; M. Guglielmi, La monetazione degli Svevi nell'Italia meritionale, Serravalle RSM, 2000, p. 67, 1; D. Spinelli, Monete cufiche, Napoli 1844, pl. 20, 1; R. Levinson, The Early Dated Coins of Europe 1234-1500, Clifton 2007, p. 258; Friedberg 51. 0.89g, 26mm. Extremely Fine; some areas of flat strike. From the inventory of a European dealer. This remarkable scyphate-shaped tari bears two dates: Hegira 595 and Christian era 1198, the earliest Anno Domini date ever recorded on a coin, which according to Philip Grierson and L. Travaini commemorates the investiture formally granted to Frederick II and Constance by Pope Innocent III on 19 November of that year. In return the Pope received an annual cens of 1,000 'schifati', cf. MEC pp. 165-6. Amalfi was an independent republic from the 7th century that managed to extract itself from Byzantine vassalage in 839 and first elected an independent duke in 958. By 944 Amalfitan merchants were already present at Constantinople, trading with Egypt by the late 10th century and rivalling Pisa and Genova in its domestic prosperity and maritime trade with Asia before the rise of the Venice. In 1073 the republic fell to the Norman countship of Apulia and was granted many rights and attained great wealth. In about 1080, Amalfitans founded a hospice for pilgrims in Islamic occupied Jerusalem, from which the Order of the Hospital (St. John of Jerusalem) later developed. Under Roger II in 1131, Amalfi passed into the kingdom of Sicily and by 1220 the Empire of Frederick II. In matters of medieval culture, Amalfi was famous for its multiculturalism, flourishing schools of law and mathematics, maritime code and the reputed Amalfitan Flavio Gioia, who in about 1300 was considered first marine pilot to have introduced the sailor's compass to Western navigation. The date on the Amalfi tari must be connected to the fact that Islamic coinage had been dated from the time of the 5th Caliph, 'Abd al-Malik in the 77th year of the Hagira, the migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib in AD 696/7. Amalfi had been within the Islamic monetary sphere strongly influenced by the Emirate of Sicily since the 10th century, in which the standard gold unit was the gold Tarì (meaning "fresh" or "newly minted money"), the Christian designation of Ruba'i or quarter Dinar with the ideal weight of 1.05g of gold. The idea that coins should bear a date of issue referencing the time passed since the birth of Christ was not widespread in Europe until the mid 16th century. While the learned Scythian monk, Dionysus Exiguus from Tomis, formulated the Anno Domini calendar in the 6th century and is still used to enumerate the years of both the Julian and Gregorian calendars, it was not until the advent of this issue in 1198 that European coinage was so dated. This dating system was not utilised again until 1234 by the bishopric of Roskilde on its silver deniers and in 1251 in Arabic script on the Islamic styled silver coinage by the crusader city of Acre. In the spring of 1250 the papal legate Odo of Châteauroux arrived in Syria and was scandalized to learn that the Franks were striking gold and silver coins with the name and dates of the Muslim Prophet and had them substituted with purely Christian legends and dates in the name of the Messiah, albeit written in Arabic to maintain acceptability in the region. Much later from 1372 dated groschen in the name of Charlemagne were struck on a regular basis at Aachen. Frederick II, son of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, and Constance, the posthumous daughter of Roger II de Hauteville and heiress to the Norman kings of Sicily, was an infant of only three years of age when his father died and was crowned king of Sicily on papal authority at Palermo cathedral on 17 May 1198. Frederick's minority under his mother only lasted five months as the regent died on 27 November 1198. Estimate: 3000 GBP |  |
