A beautiful and very rare five thaler print.
To understand its rarity it is enough to analyze the international Coinarchives database, in which the 5 thaler print does not appear! The largest Lösers listed there from that year are of 4 reichstalar weight and reached 30,000 and 33,000 euros (+ fee) in 2021, respectively. Five times the thaler appears there for the first time!
The tradition of minting multi-taler commemorative/award coins (the so-called Löser), which began during the reign of Prince Julius, was also continued by his successors. One of them was John Frederick (Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, ruler of Calenberg). He minted in the 1970s a group of coins depicting on one side a mining scene from a mine in the Harz mountains.
First time at auction in Poland.
The highest and only piece with a note in the NGC.
Reign: Johann Friedrich (1665-1679).
Mint: Clausthal.
Mincmaster: Lippold Wefer.
Obverse: crowned monogram F in a laurel wreath, surrounded by 14 crowned shields of arms on two branches. In the rim: EX DURIS GLORIA ANNO 1670. At the bottom, signature LW, numeral of denomination 5 and mint mark (crossed hooks).
Reverse: a horse hovering over a mining landscape with a cross-section of a mine, on whose head a laurel wreath is placed by a hand emerging from the clouds.
