Mainz 1675-MF 30 kreuzer KM-134

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Künker sale 386, lot 4743

This specimen was lot 4743 in Künker sale 386 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €170 (about US$220 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"MAINZ, ERZBISTUM, Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid, 1673-1675. 1/2 Gulden (30 Kreuzer) 1675, MF, Mainz. Winz. Kratzer, sehr schön. Erworben von der Münzenhandlung E. Button, Frankfurt/Main. (archbishopric of Mainz, Lothar Frederick of Metternich-Burscheid, 1673-75, half gulden or thirty kreuzer of 1675, Mainz mint. Light scratches, 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 also issued half gulden in many styles (KM 120, 134, 135, 148, 162, 178) of which this issue of 1675 is the second.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 9.71 g.

Catalog reference: KM 134, Slg. Walther 350; Slg. Pick 494.

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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