Mainz 1695-CB 60 kreuzer

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Künker sale 404, lot 2430

This specimen was lot 2430 in Künker sale 404 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €460 (about US$604 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"DAS ERZBISTUM MAINZ. ERZBISCHOF ANSELM FRANZ VON INGELHEIM, 1679-1695. Die Münzstätte Aschaffenburg. Gulden (60 Kreuzer) 1695 (Jahreszahl im Stempel aus 1693 geändert), Aschaffenburg. Münzmeister Conrad Bethmann. Brustbild r. in geistlichem Ornat//Mit Kurhut bedecktes, vierfeldiges Wappen (Mainz/Ingelheim), dahinter Schwert und Krummstab gekreuzt, zu den Seiten je ein Palmzweig, darunter die Wertzahl 60 in Klammern. R Sehr schön. Exemplar der Auktion Frankfurter Münzhandlung 132, Frankfurt/Main 1989, Nr. 971 und der Slg. Heinz Beaury, Auktion Fischer 7, Bonn 2022, Nr. 5312. (Germany, archbishopric of Mainz, Anselm Francis of Ingelheim, 1679-95, gulden or sixty kreuzer of 1695, Aschaffenburg mint, 1695/3 overdate. Obverse: bust right in clerical dress; reverse: triple-helmeted, quartered arms of Mainz and Ingelheim, sword and crozier crossed behind, palm branches around, value in brackets below. Rare, very fine.)"

Anselm Francis of Ingelheim (1634-95) succeeded Charles Henry as archbishop of Mainz in 1679. Unlike many of his predecessors, he held no other office. Mainz was occupied by the French army in 1688 which was besieged by imperial forces in 1689. The siege and resulting evacuation by the French (taking everything with them not nailed down) ruined a town already in decline. This type was struck 1690, 1693, 1695. The gulden from Mainz are much more available than the thalers.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 16,67 g.

Catalog reference: KM 201, Dav-658; Slg. Pick I (Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 405) 584; Slg. Walther 439.

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 404: Coins and Medals of the City of Mainz - The Prof. Dr. Eckhart Pick Collection, Part II, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.

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