Baden 1830 10 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 2498 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $110. The catalog description[1] noted, "BADEN: Ludwig I, 1818-1830, AR 10 kreuzer, 1830, a wonderful lustrous mint state example! PCGS graded MS64." This type was struck 1829-30 and is not rare, altho the plate coin in the SCWC is heavily worn. The ten kreuzer was one-sixth gulden or 1/12 of a thaler. The grand dukes of Baden toadied up to Napoleon and were rewarded with large chunks of land along the Rhine, much of it former Austrian territory. They deftly switched sides during his collapse and were allowed to retain their gains at the Congress of Vienna.
Recorded mintage: 510,450.
Specification: 2.78 g, 0.500 fine silver, 20 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-192, AKS-63, J-40.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [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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