Brandenburg-Bayreuth 1630-F 4 kreuzer
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This specimen was lot 1141 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $152.75. The catalog description[1] noted, "BRANDENBURG-BAYREUTH: Christian, 1603-1655, AR 4 kreuzer, 1630-F, struck in Fürth, PCGS graded MS63, ex Don Erickson Collection." Today, Bayreuth is famous as the site of the Wagner festival but in the seventeenth century, it was not part of Bavaria but an independent principality ruled by a junior branch of the Hohenzollerns. This type was struck 1623-24, 1630-33. In the late eighteenth century, 4 kreuzer = one batzen and forty batzen = one thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM-39.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [1]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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