Mainz 1765-FB 10 kreuzer

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Künker sale 404, lot 2502

This specimen was lot 2502 in Künker sale 404 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €20 (about US$26 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"DAS ERZBISTUM MAINZ. ERZBISCHOF EMMERICH JOSEPH VON BREIDBACH-BÜRRESHEIM, 1763-1774. Die Münzstätte Mainz. 10 Kreuzer (1/12 Konventionstaler) 1765, Mainz. Münzmeister Damian Fritsch. Wardein Peter Moritz Brahm. Stempelschneider August Friedrich Stieler. Mit großer Rosette unter dem Brustbild. Brustbild r. in geistlichem Ornat, im Armabschnitt die Signatur S//Mit Kurhut bedecktes, zweifeldiges Wappen (Mainz/Breidbach) auf Postament mit Wertzahl 10, dahinter Schwert und Krummstab gekreuzt, unten zu den Seiten die geteilte Signatur F - B. Mit Kerbrand. Kl. Zainende, min. justiert, fast sehr schön. Erworben 2022 vom Münzenhandel Knopik, Eckartsberga. (Germany, archbishopric of Mainz, Emmerich Joseph of Breidbach-Bürresheim, 1763-74, ten kreuzer or 1/12 convention thaler of 1765, Mainz mint, with large rosette under the bust. Obverse: bust right in episcopal mantle, initial on truncation; reverse: capped impaled arms of Mainz and Briedbach on a pedestal with the value, crossed sword and crozer behind, reeded edge. Tiny clip, light adjustment marks, about very fine.)"

Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim (1707-74) was also bishop of Worms after 1768. He is noted for implementing educational reform in his diocese. A considerable variety of low denomination coins exists for his reign. The thaler, which had been ninety kreuzer in the seventeenth century, was raised to 120 kreuzer in the eighteenth century and renamed from reichsthaler to convention thaler. The gulden remained sixty kreuzer and so became half a thaler from two-thirds.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver or billon, this specimen 3,79 g.

Catalog reference: KM 350, Pr. Alex. 720; Schön 48 var.; Slg. Pick I (Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 405) 712 var.; Slg. Walther 600 (Lot).

Source:

  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • [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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