Brandenburg-Bayreuth 1750-CLR kreuzer
This specimen was lot 2910 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $96. The catalog description[1] noted, "BRANDENBURG-BAYREUTH: Friedrich, 1735-1763, BI kreuzer, Bayreuth, 1750, initials CL-R, lustrous, PCGS graded MS63." The line lapsed in 1791 and the provinces fell to Prussia, who in turn yielded them to Bavaria in 1806 as part of Napoleon's mediatization. This type was struck 1745-53. One convention thaler was 120 kreuzer. The reverse features an interminable Latin abbreviation, "M·C·I·B·S·P·C·W·M·S·C·B·N·P·R·H· (Magdeburgi, Cliviae, Juliaci, Bergae, Silesiae, Pomeraniae, Cassubiorum, Wittgensteinensis, Montium Stetini, Crossenensis, Burggravius Norimbergensis, Princeps Halberstadensis)."
Recorded mintage: unknown but not expensive.
Specification: 0.50 g, silver, 14 mm diameter, engraved by Christof Lorenz Ruckdeschel.
Catalog reference: KM-192, Sch-66, Wilm-779.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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