Austria (1504-10) kreuzer
This specimen was lot 4646 in Künker sale 441 (Osnabrück, March 2026), where it sold for €65 (about US$90 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"RÖMISCH-DEUTSCHES REICH, Maximilian I., 1490-1519. Kreuzer o. J. (1504-1510), Lienz, für die Grafschaft Görz. Stempelschneider Ulrich Ursentaler. Sehr schön +. Aus der Sammlung Kommerzialrat Dr. Herbert Wenzel, Wien. (Holy Roman Empire, Maximilian I, 1490-1519, undated kreuzer, circa 1504-10, Lienz mint, struck for Gorizia. Very fine or better.)"
Numista states this undated type comes with two privy marks: a rosette for Benedikt Burkhart, trefoil for Ulrich Ursentaler (shown here). Lienz is today the capital of the district of East Tyrol in Austria. A mint operated there in the late Middle Ages for the local lords. It struck mostly pfennigs and other low value coins but this gold florin came from there. This is one of its last products before it was closed by the Hapsburgs. Görz itself is near the coast, inland from Aquileia, but an exclave of it is between Salzburg, Carinthia and Tyrol in the mountains.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: billon, this specimen 0,89 g.
Catalog reference: Egg S. 176, B 3.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Frühjahrs-Auktion 441: Orders and Decorations from the Estate of Wilhelm, Duke of Bavaria (1752–1837), among others | Coins and Medals from the Middle Ages and Modern times, particularly Denmark, Habsburg, Norway, and Saxony, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2026.
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