Groningen 1672 25 stuivers
This specimen was lot 5216 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €320 (about US$419 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"NIEDERLANDE, GRONINGEN, Stadt. Einseitige Halbtalerklippe zu 25 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 25 - ST. Sehr schön +. Aus der Sammlung Eberhard Link. Exemplar der Lagerliste Münzen und Medaillen AG 215, Basel 1961, Nr. 215. (Netherlands, city of Groningen, uniface klippe half thaler of 25 stuber of 1672, struck while besieged by soldiers of Cologne and Munster during the Bishop's War. Obverse: large crowned, quartered arms divide the value. Very fine or better.)"
This was issued by the city, not the province, of Groningen. Some sources state that this piece was minted as a commemorative after the siege was over.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 14,37 g.
Catalog reference: KM 26, Brause-Mansfeld Tf. 19, 9 (dort mit gravierter Rückseite); Delm-737; Purmer Go 18; Engel/Fabre/Perret/Wattier 4.17.12.2.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Delmonte, A., Le Bénélux D'or, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman N.V., 1964, with supplements to 1977.
- 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]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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