Bamberg 1696-GFN 4 kreuzer
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This specimen was lot 1130 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $211.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "BAMBERG: Lothar Franz von Schönborn, 1693-1729, AR 4 kreuzer, 1696, GFN mintmaster, PCGS graded MS64." Two other bishops of Bamberg were also bishops of Würzburg, examples of the problem of plurality of benefices which beset the German Church at the time. This type was also struck 1698 and 1700 and is common.
Recorded mintage: 891,000.
Specification: silver, 23 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-85.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [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.
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- Coins and currency dated 1696
- return to coins of German States, Bamberg