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<p>[QUOTE="Chris B, post: 26168002, member: 87179"]My first update to this thread in quite a while. Yesterday, 4/25/2025, I went to CSNS in Chicago (Shamburg). My intention was to come home with this coin. Recently I have been able to make some nice sales and my real job has been cooperating.</p><p><br /></p><p>AR Multiple Taler (equivalent to four Taler)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1670542[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Celebrating his (August II) 88th birthday. Dated 10 April 1666 HS. </p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: Draped and armored bust facing slightly right, wearing skullcap, being crowned by Justitia, standing right, holding sword and scales, and crowned with a wreath by Victory, standing left, holding palm frond </p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: Ornately crested helmet facing; all within wreath decorated with fourteen crowned coats-of-arms; mark of value ‘4’ punched below; wreathed border</p><p><br /></p><p>References: Welter 781A; Davenport LS84 D.84; KM 488. </p><p><br /></p><p>Composition: Silver</p><p>Weight 115.69 g</p><p>Diameter: 86 mm</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of people consider the below coin a companion piece. Later in the same year August II died and a "Death Thaler" was produced in his honor. There was a multiple version of this as well but mine is a just a Thaler</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1670555[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Chris B, post: 26168002, member: 87179"]My first update to this thread in quite a while. Yesterday, 4/25/2025, I went to CSNS in Chicago (Shamburg). My intention was to come home with this coin. Recently I have been able to make some nice sales and my real job has been cooperating. AR Multiple Taler (equivalent to four Taler) [ATTACH=full]1670542[/ATTACH] Celebrating his (August II) 88th birthday. Dated 10 April 1666 HS. Obverse: Draped and armored bust facing slightly right, wearing skullcap, being crowned by Justitia, standing right, holding sword and scales, and crowned with a wreath by Victory, standing left, holding palm frond Reverse: Ornately crested helmet facing; all within wreath decorated with fourteen crowned coats-of-arms; mark of value ‘4’ punched below; wreathed border References: Welter 781A; Davenport LS84 D.84; KM 488. Composition: Silver Weight 115.69 g Diameter: 86 mm A lot of people consider the below coin a companion piece. Later in the same year August II died and a "Death Thaler" was produced in his honor. There was a multiple version of this as well but mine is a just a Thaler [ATTACH=full]1670555[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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