Groningen 1672 6-1/4 stuivers
The first specimen was lot 72831 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Santa Ana, CA, May 2017), where it sold for $587.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "NETHERLANDS. Groningen & Ommeland. 6 1/4 Stuivers Uniface Siege Klippe, 1672. PCGS MS-63 Secure Holder. Struck after the siege to commemorate the defeat of the French forces. Sharply struck, lightly toned and quite attractive." The second specimen was lot 5218 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €650 (about US$851 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[2] noted,
"NIEDERLANDE, GRONINGEN, Stadt. Einseitige Achteltalerklippe zu 6 1/4 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 6 1/4 - ST. Hübsche Patina, vorzüglich. Aus der Sammlung Eberhard Link. Exemplar der Lagerliste G. Toderi 2, Florenz, Oktober 1976, Suppl. Nr. 95. (Netherlands, city of Groningen, uniface klippe eighth thaler of 6¼ stuber of 1672, struck while besieged by soldiers of Cologne and Munster during the Bishop's War. Obverse: crowned, quartered arms divide the value. Hadnsome patina, extremely fine.)"
This was issued by the city, not the province, of Groningen. It was accompanied by 12½ stuivers, twenty-five and fifty stuivers.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, the second specimen 3,61 g.
Catalog reference: KM-24; Mailliet-Pl.XLV#16; Del-738, Brause-Mansfeld Tf. 19, 11 (dort mit gravierter Rückseite); Purmer Go 20; Engel/Fabre/Perret/Wattier 4.17.12.4.
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- Delmonte, A., Le Bénélux D'or, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman N.V., 1964, with supplements to 1977.
- Korchnak, Lawrence C., Siege Coins of the World, 1453-1902, Lancaster, PA: Classical Numismatic Group, 2021.
- 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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