Breslau 1680-LPH 6 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 2576 in Steve Album Auction 52 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $192. The catalog description[1] noted, "BRESLAU (BISHOPRIC): Friedrich von Hessen-Darmstadt, 1671-1682, AR 6 kreuzer, 1680, an attractive nearly mint state example, PCGS graded AU58, ex Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection." This type was struck 1679-80 along with a half kreuzer (KM 161), a one kreuzer (KM 162), a three kreuzer (KM 154), 15 kreuzer (KM 156) and thaler (KM 157). The Bishopric of Breslau was an ecclesiastical state in Silesia and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client from 1526 until its conquest by Frederick the Great in 1741. Breslau issued a long series of ducats and multiple ducats, all rare. The thaler, worth 72 kreuzer at the beginning of the seventeenth century, had by this time risen to ninety kreuzer.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 4.79 g, silver, 28 mm diameter, plain edge.
Catalog reference: KM-155.
- 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 Dustin Wagner, Auction 52, featuring the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection and the Almer H. Orr III Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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