Austria 1726 pfennig
This specimen was lot 4767 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €300 (about US$393 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"RÖMISCH-DEUTSCHES REICH. Karl VI. 1711-1740. Einseitiger Pfennig 1726, Wien. R Vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (Holy Roman Empire, Charles VI, 1711-40, uniface pfennig of 1726, Vienna mint. Scarce, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"
This type was struck at the Vienna mint 1713-14, 1723, 1726, 1738-40. We don't know if this coin was intentionally struck uniface. The SCWC lists numerous types for this denomination (KM 1111, 1417, 1418, 1419, 1481, 1482, 1513, 1514, 1531, 1622) but doesn't give photographs for any of them. Quarter kreuzer were also struck. Four pfennig = one kreuzer and sixty kreuzer = one gulden.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: billon, this specimen 0.48 g.
Catalog reference: KM 1532, Herinek 1026.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
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