Friedberg 1679-RA 15 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 3896 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,200 (about US$1,570 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"FRIEDBERG, REICHSBURG. Hans Eitel Diede zum Fürstenstein, 1671-1685. 15 Kreuzer 1679. RR Sehr schön +. (Germany, city of Friedberg, Hans Eitel Diede zum Fürstenstein, 1671-85, fifteen kreuzer of 1679. Rare, very fine or better)"
Fifteen kreuzer were one quarter gulden or one-sixth thaler. This is the only issue of this denomination from this city in the seventeenth century. The free city of Friedberg evolved into a burgraviate and thence passed to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1802.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 5.58 g.
Catalog reference: KM 50, Eichelmann 81 BA.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
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