Bohemia 1622 75 kreuzer KM-298
This specimen was lot 4651 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €420 (about US$550 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"RÖMISCH-DEUTSCHES REICH. Ferdinand II. 1592-1618-1637. Kipper-1/2 Taler (75 Kreuzer) 1622, Prag. Schrötlingsfehler am Rand, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (Holy Roman Empire, Ferdinand II, 1618-37, kipper half thaler or 75 kreuzer of 1622, Prague mint. Edge defect, very fine to extremely fine.)"
The kipperzeit was a period (1619-24) when many princes of the empire reaped large profits by issuing debased and light weight coinage. Nowhere was this done more enthusiastically than in Bohemia, site of the early fighting of the Thirty Years War. Frederick V, the "Winter King" did it first, until his overthrow in 1620. Emperor Ferdinand II followed his example, tho he should have known better, by issuing this 75 kreuzer in 1621-23. It has the same weight as thirty kreuzer of the prewar standard. Similar coins were minted at Joachimsthal (KM 331) and Kuttenberg (KM 299).
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 12.25 g.
Catalog reference: KM 298, Dietiker 683; Halacka 700.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [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.
Link to:
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- Bohemia 1620 24 kreuzer KM-243 kipper issue of Frederick V, Kuttenberg mint
- Bohemia 1620 48 kreuzer KM-251 kipper, Prague mint
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