Lobkowitz 1794 20 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 4670 in Künker sale 406 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €800 (about US$1,050 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"DIE ÖSTERREICHISCHEN STANDESHERREN, LOBKOWITZ, FÜRSTENTUM, Franz Josef Maximilian, 1784-1816. 20 Kreuzer 1794, Wien. In US-Plastikholder der NGC mit der Bewertung MS 62 (6643585-005). Hübsche Patina, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (Austrian states, principality of Lobkowitz, Francis Joseph Maximilian, 1784-1816, twenty kreuzer of 1794, Vienna mint. Graded NGC MS62, handome patina, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"
The SCWC lists this twenty kreuzer, a thaler and a ducat as the entire output for this state in the eighteenth century. The ancestral seat is in Bohemia, where the SCWC catalogs this type, but the prince spent his life in Vienna as a patron, among others, of Beethoven.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 6.70 g.
Catalog reference: KM 10; [[Silver crowns by Davenport number|Holzmair 59.
- 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 406: Gold Coins | Coins and Medals from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. Löwenstein-Wertheim | German Coins after 1871, a. o. Patterns from the Coenen Collection, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.
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