Bavaria 1730 30 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 3500 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €70 (about US$92 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BAYERN, HERZOGTUM, SEIT 1623 KURFÜRSTENTUM, SEIT 1806 KÖNIGREICH: Karl Albert, 1726-1745. 30 Kreuzer (1/2 Gulden) 1730, München. Vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Heidelberger Münzhandlung, Herbert Grün 36, Heidelberg 2002, Nr. 5596. (Germany, electorate of Bavaria, Charles Albert, 1726-45, thirty kreuzer or half gulden of 1730, Munich mint. Extremely fine.)"
This type was struck 1726-32 and is fairly common in circulated condition. Thirty kreuzer was a theoretically one-third of a thaler altho it was lighter than the quarter thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, 29 mm diameter, this specimen 6.73 g.
Catalog reference: KM 409, Hahn 246.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [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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