Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1725-EPH 12 mariengroschen
This specimen was lot 73253 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2023), where it sold for $192. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Brunswick-Luneburg: Brunswick. 12 Mariengroschen, 1725-EPH. Zellerfeld Mint; mm: crossed axes between HH. August Wilhelm. PCGS AU-55. Featuring a rather deep cabinet tone, this barely handled fractional denomination would undoubtedly serve as an excellent representative of the type. From the Robert C. Knepper Collection." This denomination was one half gulden or one third of a thaler. This type was struck 1714-31 and is common. Mintmaster EPH appears 1723-31. The concurrent "leaping stallion" coin of the same weight was a one-third thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM-730; Welter-2390.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2023 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the David Sterling Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.
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