Brandenburg-Ansbach 1782-S 4 pfennig
The first specimen was lot 3962 in Goldberg sale 84 (Los Angeles, January 2015), where it sold for $352.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "German States: Brandenburg-Ansbach. 4 Pfenning, 1782-S. Alexander. PCGS graded MS-66." We haven't added many German states minors to this website but we couldn't resist this handsome example from a type struck 1764-89. It comes not from the Electorate of Brandenburg (later the Kingdom of Prussia) but from Brandenburg-Ansbach, a Hohenzollern enclave west of Bavaria and neighboring Nuremburg. Four pfennig = one kreuzer. The second specimen was lot 1137 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $152.75. The catalog description[2] noted, "BRANDENBURG-ANSBACH: Alexander, 1757-1791, AR 4 pfennig, 1782-S, struck in Schwabach, PCGS graded MS65, ex Don Erickson Collection."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: billon.
Catalog reference: KM-273.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Goldberg, Ira, Larry Goldberg, Aleeza Brown, Yifu Che, Jason Villareal and Stephen Harvey, Goldberg Sale 84: the Pre-Long Beach Auction, Los Angeles: Goldberg Coins and Collectibles, 2014.
- [2]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
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