Mainz 1671-MF 60 kreuzer

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Künker sale 386, lot 4729

This specimen was lot 4729 in Künker sale 386 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €220 (about US$284 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"MAINZ, ERZBISTUM, Johann Philipp von Schönborn, 1647-1673. Gulden (60 Kreuzer) 1671, MF, Mainz. Stempelfehler am Rand, sehr schön +. (archbishopric of Mainz, John Philip of Schonborn, 1647-73, gulden or sixty kreuzer of 1671, Mainz mint. Die defect on the edge, choice very fine.)"

The archbishops of Mainz were prolific issuers of gold coins in the late middle ages but output dropped in the late fifteenth century, never to recover. After the Thirty Years War, the thaler rose from 72 to ninety kreuzers. Many princes responded in the 1670's by issuing the gulden at its old value of sixty kreuzer or two-thirds of a thaler. The archbishops issued gulden in many styles (KM 121, 123, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 163, 179, 201) of which this issue of 1671-72 is the first.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 19.16 g.

Catalog reference: KM 121, Slg. Walther 326; Dav-646; Helmschrott 325; Slg. Pick 449.

Source:

  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
  • [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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