Bamberg 1800 20 kreuzer
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This specimen was lot 844 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $288. The catalog description[1] noted, "BAMBERG: Christoph Franz, 1795-1801, AR 20 kreuzer, 1800, Convention 20 kreuzer, one-year type, PCGS graded MS63, ex Almer H. Orr III Collection." Christoph Franz was the last bishop of Bamberg prior to its secularization and annexation by Bavaria in 1802. Twenty kreuzer was one-sixth of a convention thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.61 g, 0.562 fine silver, 29 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-148.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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