Lippe-Detmold (1715-17) 2 pfennig
This specimen was lot 5303 in Künker sale 386 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €925 (about US$1,195 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"LIPPE, GRAFSCHAFT, SEIT 1789 FÜRSTENTUM, Friedrich Adolf, 1697-1718. Ku.-2 Pfennig o. J. (geprägt 1715-1717), Detmold. Münzmeister Hans oder Ludolph Heinrich Lüders. Selten in dieser Erhaltung. Vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. Exemplar der Slg. Grönegress, Auktion Fritz Rudolf Künker 13, Osnabrück 1989, Nr. 320. (county of Lippe, Frederick Adolf, 1697-1718, undated copper double penny, Detmold mint. Scarce in this quality, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"
This undated type has a low catalog value.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper, this specimen 1.77 g.
Catalog reference: KM 147, Slg. Weweler 634 ff.; Ihl/Schwede 442 (this example); Weing. 850 a.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [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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