Isenburg-Budingen 1676 60 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 5285 in Künker sale 386 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €4,000 (about US$5,169 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"YSENBURG UND BÜDINGEN (IN BÜDINGEN), GRAFSCHAFT, SEIT 1840 FÜRSTENTUM, Johann Ludwig, 1635-1685. 60 Kreuzer (Gulden) 1676, Büdingen, mit Titel Leopolds I. Von großer Seltenheit. Fast vorzüglich. (county of Isenburg-Büdingen, John Louis, 1635-85, sixty kreuzer or gulden of 1676, Büdingen mint, struck in the name of Leopold I. Extremely rare, about extremely fine.)"
Wikipedia comments,
"Isenburg-Büdingen was a County of southern Hesse, located in Büdingen. It was originally a part of the County of Isenburg. There were two different counties of the same name. The first (1341–1511) was a partition of Isenburg-Cleberg, and was partitioned into Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein and Isenburg-Ronneburg in 1511. The second (1628–1806) was a partition of Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein. It was partitioned between itself, Isenburg-Meerholz and Isenburg-Wächtersbach in 1673, and was mediatised to Isenburg in 1806. In 1816 Isenburg was partitioned between the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt and the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel."
The coinage most collectors see is from the brief period when the count was a member of Napoleon's Confederation of the Rhine. This gulden, struck 1670, 1676, 1678-79, is rare.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 18,50 g.
Catalog reference: KM 30, Dav-580; Grote - (see 30).
- 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]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 386: Brakteaten | Mainz | Bibliothek Prof. Dr. Niklot Klüßendorf | Mittelalter und Neuzeit | Goldprägungen | Deutsche Münzen ab 1871, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2023.
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