Friedberg 1674-AL gulden
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This specimen was lot 77243 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, November 2025), where it sold for $432. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Friedberg. 60 Kreuzer (Gulden), 1674. Johann Eitel I. PCGS AU-58. From the G. L. Hermann Collection." This type of 1674-76 is listed as fairly common, especially compared to the rare thalers. At the time, 3 kreuzer = groschen, 4 kreuzer = batzen, 90 kreuzer = one thaler. The free city of Friedberg evolved into a burgraviate and thence passed to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1802.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 19.2 g, silver.
Catalog reference: Dav-520; KM-46.
- 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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, November 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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