Emden (1637-57) 28 stuber
This specimen was lot 4187 in Künker sale 406 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €420 (about US$551 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"EMDEN, STADT, Gulden (28 Stüber) o. J. (1637/1657), mit Titel Ferdinands III. In US-Plastikholder der NGC mit der Bewertung MS 63 (6385876-031). Sehr selten in dieser Erhaltung. Leichte Prägeschwäche, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (city of Emden, undated gulden of 28 stuivers, struck in the name of Ferdinand III. Graded NGC MS-63, very scarce in this quality, slightly weakly struck, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"
The town of Emden lies on the windswept shores of Ostfriesland on the North Sea. The SCWC lists several varieties of this gulden with different arabesques around the arms (KM 10.1, KM 10.2 and KM 16). The present example, of course, doesn't match any of them. A klippe version (KM 11) exists.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: Dav-508; Knyph. 9646.
- 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.
- Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 406: Gold Coins | Coins and Medals from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. Löwenstein-Wertheim | German Coins after 1871, a. o. Patterns from the Coenen Collection, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.
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