Jagerndorf 1610 3 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 1178 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $164.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "JAGERNDORF: AR 3 kreuzer, 1610, PCGS graded MS63, ex Don Erickson Collection." Jagerndorf, along with Troppau, was in the uppermost (southern) part of Silesia, a province under Austrian rule 1526-1740. Most of Silesia was seized and annexed by Frederick the Great in the Seven Years War but Troppau and Jagerndorf remained Austrian and are now Czech instead of Polish. Jagerndorf was held by the margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach when this coin was issued 1610-21. After the margrave's death in 1623, it passed to the direct rule of the emperor, who granted it to the princes of Liechtenstein.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM-31.
- 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 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
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