Hanau-Lichtenberg 1673-MG 60 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 2931 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $168. The catalog description[1] noted, "HANAU-LICHTENBERG: Friedrich Casimir, 1641-1685, AR 60 kreuzer, 1673, once lightly cleaned and retoned, XF, ex Joe Sedillot Collection." This gulden was accompanied by a half gulden (KM 70) and a thaler (Dav-6702). It was struck 1672-74. Friedrich Casimir's quixotic project to found a colony in South America left the county deeply in debt. Hanau-Munzenberg was erected again in 1691 for Friedrich Casimir's nephew, Philipp Reinhard. Hanau-Lichtenberg eventually fell to Hesse-Darmstadt.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 19.38 g, silver, 36 mm diameter, this specimen 19.25 g.
Catalog reference: KM-71.4, Dav-547.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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