Mainz 1673-MF 60 kreuzer

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Künker sale 386, part of lot 4739

This specimen was part of lot 4739 in Künker sale 386 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which for €380 (about US$491 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"MAINZ, ERZBISTUM, Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid, 1673-1675. Gulden (60 Kreuzer) 1673, MF, Mainz. 19,07 g und 19,19 g. 2 Stück., Sehr schön. (archbishopric of Mainz, Lothar Frederick of Metternich-Burscheid, 1673-75, gulden or sixty kreuzer of 1673, Mainz mint. Two pieces, 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 1673-75 is the second.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 19,07 g.

Catalog reference: KM 123, Slg. Walther 341; Dav-648; Slg. Pick 488.

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.
  • Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
  • [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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