Baden 1879 kreuzer
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This specimen was lot 23526 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (Newport Beach, CA, January 2021), where it sold for $100. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Baden. Kreuzer, 1879. PCGS MS-63 Brown Gold Shield. Struck to commemorate the Evangelical Church at Eppingen. A pleasing Kreuzer with flashy, lustrous surfaces and mint red remaining in the protected areas." All the minor coinage of the German states was demonetized upon unification in 1871; it is difficult to see how the grand duke expected this coin, struck eight years after unification, to circulate. It may have been sold as a fundraiser for the church.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: bronze.
Catalog reference: KMX-M2.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Unusual World Coins, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The January 2021 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Oro del Nuevo Mundo and Matt Orsini Collections, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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