Hamburg 1840-HSK schilling
This specimen was lot 2936 in Steve Album Auction 53 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[1] noted, "HAMBURG: Free Hanseatic City, AR schilling, 1840, mintmaster initials HSK, a fantastic mint state example! PCGS graded MS66, ex Joe Sedillot Collection." This is the final date of a type struck 1823, 1828, 1832, 1837 and 1840. The subsequent schilling of 1841 (KM 558) added stars over the castle. The schilling was one sixteenth of a thaler altho Hamburg struck no thalers during the nineteenth century. This and all other German minor coinage was rendered obsolete by the coinage reform of 1871.
Recorded mintage: 144,000.
Specification: 1.08 g, 0.375 fine silver, 17 mm diameter, plain edge.
Catalog reference: KM-546.2, Cr-6a.2.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 53, featuring Selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld, Almer H. Orr III, Dr. Dirk Loer and Joe Sedillot Collections, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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