Baden 1840 6 kreuzer

Stephen Album sale 32, lot 1127

This specimen was lot 1127 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $117.50. The catalog description^[1] noted, "BADEN: Leopold, 1830-1852, AR 6 kreuzer, 1840, PCGS graded MS66+, ex Don Erickson Collection." This type was struck 1839-50, 1855-56 and is common. In southern Germany, four pfennig = one kreuzer. In 1871, the currency was reformed to use pfennig and marks and the kreuzer was dropped.

Recorded mintage: 1,317,220.

Specification: 2.59 g, .333 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM-210.

Source:

• 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 Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.

Link to:

• 1832 6 kreuzer
• 1840 ducat
• 1841 6 kreuzer
• Coins and currency dated 1840
• return to German States, Baden-Durlach