Bavaria 1797 3 kreuzer
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This specimen was lot 3572 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, SEIT 1623 KURFÜRSTENTUM, SEIT 1806 KÖNIGREICH: Karl Theodor, 1777-1799. 3 Kreuzer (Groschen) 1797, München. Fast vorzüglich. (Germany, electorate of Bavaria, Charles Theodore, 1777-99, three kreuzer of 1797, Munich mint. About extremely fine.)"
This type of 1794-97 is the first three kreuzer issued since 1767. It has a face value of 1/30 of a thaler but contains 1/32 of the amount of silver.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 1.35 g, 0.333 fine silver, 18 mm diameter, this specimen 1.35 g.
Catalog reference: KM 621, Hahn 339; Witt. 2375.
- 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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