Brandenburg-Bayreuth 1762-CLR 20 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 3371 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $107.10. The catalog description[1] noted, "BRANDENBURG-BAYREUTH: Friedrich, 1735-1763, AR 20 kreuzer, 1762, mint official CLR, PCGS graded MS62." This type was struck 1760-63 and was worth two-ninths of a reichsthaler (90 kreuzer) or one-sixth of a convention thaler (120 kreuzer). The margraves of Brandenburg-Bayreuth fell extinct in 1769 and the land passed to Brandenburg-Ansbach. The margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, perhaps anticipating the storm of Napoleonic invasion, sold out to Prussia in 1791 and moved to England. Napoleon assigned the territory to Bavaria in 1806, where it now remains.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM-225.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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