Mainz 1674-MF 60 kreuzer

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Künker sale 386, lot 4740

This specimen was lot 4740 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, Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid, 1673-1675. Gulden (60 Kreuzer) 1674, MF, Mainz. R Sehr schön +. (archbishopric of Mainz, Lothar Frederick of Metternich-Burscheid, 1673-75, gulden or sixty kreuzer of 1674, Mainz mint. Rare, 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 1673-75 is the second.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 19.23 g.

Catalog reference: KM 123, Slg. Walther 348; Dav-648; Slg. Pick 491.

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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