Hungary 1676-GC 6 krajczar

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from Stephen Album sale 41, lot 2879
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This specimen was lot 2879 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it sold for $114. The catalog description[1] noted, "HUNGARY: Leopold I, 1657-1705, AR 6 krajczar, 1676, Pressburg Mint issue, struck with roller dies, lightly toned, attractive, EF." Three Hungarian mints struck this denomination for the emperor; Kremnitz, Nagybanya and Pressburg (shown here). This type was struck 1675-76 and 1684-85. Pressburg is now Bratislava, the capital of Slokakia. During Leopold's reign, the six kreuzer was one-twentieth of a thaler.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM-195.

Source:

  • 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 41, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.

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