2 Thalers - Ernest August Bischof of Osnabrück

Features

Issuer	Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg (German States)
Prince	Ernest Augustus (Ernst August) (1679-1698)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	1680
Value	2 Thalers
Currency	Thaler
Composition	Silver
Weight	52.3 g
Diameter	65 mm
Shape	Round
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 267978
References	KM# A269 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , Welter# 1920 Gerhard Welter. Die Münzen der Welfen seit Heinrich dem Löwen. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany (3 volumes). , Dav BrSL# 233 John Stewart Davenport; 1956. Oversize Multiple Talers of the Brunswick Duchies and Saxe-Lauenburg (1^st Edition). Self-published, Galesburg, Illinois, United States.

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Obverse

Bust to the right
2

Script: Latin

Lettering: ERNESTUS AUGUSTUS D G EPISCOP OSNABR DUX BRUNS & LUN

Reverse

Island with a palm tree

Script: Latin

Lettering:
VARIIS IN MOTIBUS EADEM
R 1680 B

Mint

Zellerfeld, modern-day Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

Mark

RB	Rudolf Bornemann, Mint master, Zellerfeld (1676-1711)

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
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1680	RB								$ 5800

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Heritage Auctions 2020 August 5 - 7 World Coins & Ancient Coins Platinum Night Auction - Dallas 3085 Lot 31499	5 Aug 2020	UNC	USD 6000.00 (incl. buyer's premium)
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	Heritage Auctions 2025 January 21 - 22 NYINC World & Ancient Coins Signature® Auction 3122 Lot 34502	21 Jan 2025	AU (NGC AU58)	USD 5400.00 (incl. buyer's premium)
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	Heritage Auctions 2021 March 25 - 27 The Paramount Collection World & Ancient Coins Signature Auction - Dallas 3096 Lot 30214	25 Mar 2021	AU (NGC AU53)	USD 4080.00 (incl. buyer's premium)
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	Künker Auction 437 Lot 150	28 Jan 2026	XF	USD 4620.34 (EUR 4000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg