Solver (numismatics)
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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 .
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- ↑ Heinz Fengler, Gerd Gierow, Willy Unger: transpress Lexikon Numismatik , Berlin 1976, p. 67