Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Oehringen 1785-KNR 20 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 1310 in SINCONA Auction 97 (Zürich, May 2025), where it sold for 80 CHF (about US$116 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"DEUTSCHLAND Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Öhringen, Grafschaft, Ludwig Friedrich Karl, 1765-1805. 20 Konventionskreuzer 1785/70, Nürnberg. Die Jahreszahl im Stempel aus 1770 sowie die Signaturen umgeschnitten. Münzmeister Georg Nikolas Riedner. Wardein Johann Christoph Knoll. Fast vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 375, Frankfurt a. M., April 2003, Los 2737. (Germany, county of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Öhringen, Louis Frederick Charles, 1765-1805, twenty kreuzer of 1785, Nuremberg mint, 1785-70 overdate. About Extremely Fine.)"
The county of Hohenlohe, small to begin with, further fragmented in the seventeenth century to form Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Neuenstein and Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Öhringen. During the Napoleonic mediatization, the county was partitioned between Bavaria and Wurttemberg. This is one of three twenty kreuzer struck in this state in the eighteenth century. Twenty kreuzer was one-sixth of a convention thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 0.562 fine silver, this specimen 6.65 g.
Catalog reference: KM 61, Albrecht 173.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Richter, Jurg, SINCONA Auction 97: World and Swiss Coins and Medals, SINCONA Bullion Auction, Zürich: SINCONA AG, 2025.
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