Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1002. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Braunschweig-Lüneburg. Christian Ludwig. Duke, 1641-1665. AR 3 Taler (85.24 g, 6h). Clausthal mint; Lippold Wefer, mintmaster. Dated 1657. SINCERE ET CONSTANER (rosette) ANNO (rosette) 1657 (rosette), crowned monogram within laurel wreath surrounded by 14 crowned coats of arms; L W (mintmaster’s initials) flanking monogram below; 3 stamped below / Horse leaping left, head right, monogram on flank; above, arm holding laurel wreath reaching from the clouds; in background, scene of Clausthal countryside; below, mining scene. Welter 1487; Fiala 1056; Knyphausen 8478; Duve 4A; Müseler 10.4.1/40; Davenport 161; KM 243. EF, toned. Rare.