Mainz 1680-MF 60 kreuzer

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Künker sale 386, lot 4755

This specimen was lot 4755 in Künker sale 386 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €500 (about US$646 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"MAINZ, ERZBISTUM, Anselm Franz von Ingelheim, 1679-1695. Gulden (60 Kreuzer) 1680, MF, Mainz. Schöne Patina, fast vorzüglich/vorzüglich. Erworben von der Münzenhandlung Richard Gaettens, Heidelberg. (archbishopric of Mainz, Anselm Francis of Ingelheim, 1679-95, gulden or sixty kreuzer of 1680, Mainz mint. Nice patina, about extremely fine/extremely 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 1680 is the tenth.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 19.45 g.

Catalog reference: KM 179, Slg. Walther 400; Dav-657; Slg. Pick 527.

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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