Bavaria 1697 15 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 3477 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €120 (about US$157 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BAYERN, HERZOGTUM, SEIT 1623 KURFÜRSTENTUM, SEIT 1806 KÖNIGREICH: Maximilian II. Emanuel, 1679-1726. 15 Kreuzer (1/4 Gulden) 1697, München. Vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Heidelberger Münzhandlung, Herbert Grün 36, Heidelberg 2002, Nr. 5373. (Germany, electorate of Bavaria, Maximilian II, 1679-1726, fifteen kreuzer or quarter gulden of 1697, Munich mint. Extremely fine.)"
This type was struck 1696-1703 and is fairly common. Varieties exist in the circle around the elector's bust; on some, the circle is solid; on others, the circle is beaded. Fifteen kreuzer = ¼ gulden = 1/6 thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver 29 mm diameter, this specimen 6.20 g.
Catalog reference: KM 369.1 (bust in solid circle), KM 369.2 (bust in beaded circle), Hahn 192.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
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