Bremen 1765-RDDB 1/2 grote

Stephen Album sale 32, lot 1143

This specimen was lot 1143 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $105.75. The catalog description^[1] noted, "BREMEN: AR ½ grote, 1765, mintmaster RDDB, PCGS graded MS63, ex Don Erickson Collection." This port on the North Sea was in decline in the eighteenth century, as reflected in its scanty coinage. It revived after the Napoleonic Wars as Germany began to industrialize. One thaler was 72 groten.

Recorded mintage: 287,000.

Specification: billon.

Catalog reference: KM-208.

Source:

• 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 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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