Brunswick-Luneburg-Calenberg 1681-HB 4 mariengroschen
This specimen was lot 1150 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $111.63. The catalog description[1] noted, "BRUNSWICK-CALENBERG-HANNOVER: AR 4 mariengroschen, 1681, struck in Celle, PCGS graded AU58, ex Don Erickson Collection." This German type was struck 1681 and 1686 and is priced fairly low. The denomination was struck with the leaping stallion (shown here plus KM 87, KM 142, KM 180), the wild man (KM 108, KM 154, KM 304, KM 374) and St. Andrew bearing a cross (KM 143), symbols also seen on contemporary thalers. This one was struck in Celle, capital of the rival dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg-Celle, which line fell extinct in 1705.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM-277.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- 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 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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