Bavaria 1778-A 20 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 3583 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €55 (about US72 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BAYERN, SEIT 1623 KURFÜRSTENTUM, SEIT 1806 KÖNIGREICH: Karl Theodor, 1777-1799. 20 Kreuzer 1778, A, Amberg. Fast vorzüglich. (Germany, electorate of Bavaria, Charles Theodore, 1777-99, twenty kreuzer of 1778, Amberg mint. about extremely fine.)"
An extensive series of this denomination was produced for Bavaria. This type was minted at Amberg 1778-83 and at Munich 1778-99, with the Amberg product being awarded a substantially higher catalog value.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.68 g, 0.583 fine silver, 29 mm diameter, this specimen 6.63 g.
Catalog reference: KM 557.2, Hahn 379.
- 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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