Hamburg 1726-IHL 8 schilling
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This specimen was lot 2247 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $132. The catalog description[1] noted, "HAMBURG: Free City, AR 8 schilling, 1726, initials IHL, well struck, with some luster, Choice EF." This eight schilling, struck 1726-28, was half a mark or one-sixth of a thaler. A 32 schilling (KM 372), 16 schilling (KM 369), four schilling (KM 359.1), two schilling (KM 357) and one schilling (KM 354) also exist.
Recorded mintage: 162,000.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM-367.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 43, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.
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