Solver (numismatics)

Looser from the coin collection of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover with the image of Prince August the Younger (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel)

Solvers are large foam coins with a multiple thaler weight . They are counted among the greatest pieces in recent coin and money history. Duke Julius von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel is said to have been the first to introduce them. Gold multiple ducats from Hamburg, so-called Portugalöser, served as a model . They primarily served the prince for representation purposes . The redeemers showed the wealth of the duke and the silver wealth of the resin .

The solvers are part of the wide thalers and are also known as show thalers .

Wilhelm Freiherr Knigge owned a collection of these pieces at Gut Bredenbeck . In 1929/1930, at the beginning of the global economic crisis , they were auctioned off to various collectors in Hanover by the Sally Rosenberg auction house .

Various solvers are exhibited in the coin cabinet of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover .

Web links

Commons : Solver (Numismatic)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Fengler, Gerd Gierow, Willy Unger: transpress Lexikon Numismatik , Berlin 1976, p. 67