Hanau-Lichtenberg 1682-SM 2 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 2932 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $180. The catalog description[1] noted, "HANAU-LICHTENBERG: Friedrich Casimir, 1641-1685, AR 2 kreuzer, Hanau, 1682, initials SM, bold strike, PCGS graded MS63." This type was struck 1647-48, 1651-58, 1667-72, 1680-84 and has a modest catalog value. One thaler was seventy-two of these coins. The "Z" in the orb is the value (2 kreuzer). 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: 1 g, silver or billon, 19 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-51, Lang-38, Suchier-575.
- 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.
- [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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