Austria 1675-IAN 15 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 2378 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $100. The catalog description[1] noted, "AUSTRIA: Leopold I, 1657-1705, AR 15 kreuzer, Graz, 1675, initials IAN, struck with roller dies, lightly toned obverse, XF." This type was struck at Graz 1675-82, 1689 and 1694 and is common. It was superseded by KM 1375, with a larger bust of the emperor. Other fifteen kreuzer of 1675 include KM 1170 (Vienna mint), KM 1211 (St. Veit mint), KM 1280 (St. Veit mint) and KM 1281 (St. Veit mint). One thaler was ninety kreuzer in the late seventeenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.25 g, silver, 28-30 mm diameter, this specimen 5.75 g.
Catalog reference: KM-1279, Herinek-944.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Heinz Moser and Heinz Tursky, Die Munzstatte Hall in Tirol, 2 vols. Innsbruck: Verlag Dr Rudolf Erhad, 1981.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 54, featuring selections from the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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