Julich-Berg 1792-PR 2 stuber
This specimen was lot 1180 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $105.75. The catalog description[1] noted, "JÜLICH-BERG: AR 2 stuber, 1792, mintmaster PR, PCGS graded MS62, ex Don Erickson Collection." Bavarian rule after 1742. This type was struck 1792, 1794 only and was accompanied by a 3 stuber (KM 216). Jülich-Berg was a duchy on the lower Rhine which passed in the early seventeenth century to the Elector of the Palatinate (Pfalz-Neuberg). Karl Theodor eventually also became duke of Bavaria and united the three provinces but Jülich-Berg was seized by Napoleon in 1801. After Napoleon's fall, the area passed to Prussia as part of the Rhineland and Bavaria was compensated with Bamberg, Wurzburg and other territories.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, fineness unknown.
Catalog reference: KM 215.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [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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