Mainz 1672-MF 60 kreuzer

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Künker sale 386, lot 4730

This specimen was lot 4730 in Künker sale 386 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €400 (about US$517 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"MAINZ, ERZBISTUM, Johann Philipp von Schönborn, 1647-1673. Gulden (60 Kreuzer) 1672, MF, Mainz. Sehr schön +. (archbishopric of Mainz, John Philip of Schonborn, 1647-73, gulden or sixty kreuzer of 1672, Mainz mint. Choice very fine.)"

Johann Philipp von Schönborn (1605–1673) was a committed pluralist, being the archbishop-elector of Mainz (1647–1673), the bishop of Würzburg (1642–1673), and the bishop of Worms (1663–1673). He was a principal negotiator of the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 which ended the Thirty Years War. As a result of the 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 18.60 g.

Catalog reference: KM 121, Slg. Walther 329; Dav-646; Helmschrott 327; Slg. Pick 453.

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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