Breslau 1680-LPH kreuzer
This specimen was lot 3372 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "BRESLAU (BISHOPRIC): Friedrich, Landgraf of Hessen-Darmstadt, 1671-1682, AR kreuzer, 1680, initials LPH, well struck, two-year type, Unc." This type was struck 1680-81 along with a half kreuzer (KM 161), a three kreuzer (KM 154), a six kreuzer (KM 155), 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.
Specification: silver or billon.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Catalog reference: KM-162, Friedensburg & Seger-2715.
- 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 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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