1 Thaler of Alexander Carl from Berlin Artist: Unknown
Mint: Berlin
Ruler: Alexander Carl, German

1861

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

18.46 g, 12:00, 33 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Irving Dillaye-Vann, B.A. 1897

Accession Number

2001.87.2278

Geography

Made in Berlin, Germany

Culture

German

Period

19th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Arms of Anhalt-Bernburg (crowned bear r., walking on crenellated wall; door in wall); below, A; around, EIN THALER XXX EIN PFUND FEIN.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: SEGEN / DES ANHALT. / BERGBAUES / 1861; below, crossed hammer and pick; around, ALEXANDER CARL HERZOG ZU ANHALT. Inscribed on edge: GOTT SEGNE ANHALT, cross with vine on either side between each word.
Provenance
Irving Dillaye-Van, to about 1938; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1938–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

coins, money, taler

Marks

text on edge

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