Groningen 1672 12-1/2 stuivers
The first specimen was lot 72830 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Santa Ana, CA, May 2017), where it sold for $493.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "NETHERLANDS. Groningen & Ommeland. 12 1/2 Stuivers Klippe, 1672. NGC MS-62. Struck after the fact to commemorate the end of the siege. Well struck, lustrous and possessing faint tone, a choice example." The second specimen was lot 5217 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €300 (about US$393 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[2] noted,
"NIEDERLANDE, GRONINGEN, Stadt. Einseitige Vierteltalerklippe zu 12 1/2 Stübern 1672, geprägt während der Belagerung durch kölnische und münstersche Truppen unter dem Befehl des münsterschen Bischofs Christoph Bernhard von Galen. Gekröntes, vierfeldiges Wappen, zu den Seiten geteilte. Wertangabe 12 1/2 - ST. Sehr schön +. Aus der Sammlung Eberhard Link. Exemplar der Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 269, Frankfurt/Main 1968, Nr. 2734. (Netherlands, city of Groningen, uniface klippe quarter thaler of 12½ stuber of 1672, struck while besieged by soldiers of Cologne and Munster during the Bishop's War. Obverse: crowned, quartered arms divide the value. Very fine or better.)"
This was issued by the city, not the province, of Groningen.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM-25; Mailliet-13, Brause-Mansfeld Tf. 19, 4 (dort mit gravierter Rückseite); Delm-738; Purmer Go 19; Engel/Fabre/Perret/Wattier 4.17.12.3.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- van der Wis, Jan, and Tom Passon, Catalogus van de Nederlandse Munten geslagen sind bet aantreden van Philips II tot aan het einde van de Bataafse Republiek (1555-1806), 2nd ed., Apeldoorn, Netherlands: Omni-Trading b.v., 2009.
- [1]Ponterio, Rick, et al., The May 2017 Collector's Choice Sale, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.
- [2]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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