Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg 1805 6 kreuzer

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Stephen Album sale 43, lot 2250
Leiningen in 1789

This specimen was lot 2250 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[1] noted, "LEININGEN-DAGSBURG-HARTENBURG: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm, 1756-1807, AR 6 kreuzer, Darmstadt, 1805, one-year type, NGC graded AU50." The landgraviate of Leiningen, already a petty state, was subdivided several times in the sixteenth century. This prince issued coins (pfenning thru six kreuzer) only in 1804-05, after his domain had been seized by France. After the Congress of Vienna, the area became part of the Bavarian Pfalz.

Recorded mintage: unknown but scarce.

Specification: 2.46 g, .350 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM-10.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 43, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2022.

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