Dortmund 1548 9 pfennig
This specimen was lot 2142 in Künker Auction 425 (Osnabrück, July 2025), where it sold for €1,100 (about US$1,558 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"DEUTSCHE MÜNZEN UND MEDAILLEN · DORTMUND, STADT 9 Pfennig 1548. Von allergrößter Seltenheit. Fast sehr schön. (Germany, city of Dortmund, nine pfennig of 1548, extremely rare, about very fine.)"
This type was also struck 1549-50. Dortmund was an imperial free city in the Ruhr with Hanseatic privileges but was destroyed during the Thirty Years War. It passed to Nassau in the mediatization of 1803 but ended up part of Prussia after the Congress of Vienna. At that point, its population was about 4,800. Industrialization after 1875 caused a population explosion and Dortmund remains a major metropolis today.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 2,02 g.
Catalog reference: KM MB20, Berghaus 139.
- Nicol, N. Douglas, Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of German Coins, 1501-Present, 3rd ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 425: Gold coins from the Medieval and Modern Times, from the Mohr family collection, e.g. | Silver coins, e.g. highlights of medallic art | German coins after 1871, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2025.
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