Mainz 1765-FB 30 kreuzer

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Künker sale 404, lot 2496

This specimen was lot 2496 in Künker sale 404 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €240 (about US$315 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"DAS ERZBISTUM MAINZ. ERZBISCHOF EMMERICH JOSEPH VON BREIDBACH-BÜRRESHEIM, 1763-1774. Die Münzstätte Mainz. 30 Kreuzer (1/4 Konventionstaler) 1765, Mainz. Münzmeister Damian Fritsch. Wardein Peter Mortiz Brahm. Stempelschneider August Friedrich Stieler. Die Rückseitenumschrift beginnt oben links: 40 - ST : - EINE : MARK - FEIN 1765 [drei Ringe übereinander] Brustbild r. in geistlichem Ornat, im Armabschnitt die Signatur St •//Mit Kurhut bedecktes, vierfeldiges Wappen (Mainz/Breidbach) auf Kartusche mit Wertzahl 30, dahinter Schwert und Krummstab gekreuzt, unten zu den Seiten die geteilte Signatur F - B. Mit Kettenrand. Von größter Seltenheit. Kl. Randfehler, sehr schön. Exemplar der Sammlung Horn. Erworben 2017 von Manfred Olding, Osnabrück. (Germany, archbishopric of Mainz, Emmerich Joseph of Breidbach-Bürresheim, 1763-74, thirty kreuzer or one quarter convention thaler of 1765, Mainz mint, the reverse inscription begins at the top left. Obverse: bust right in episcopal mantle, initial on truncation; reverse: capped quartered arms of Mainz and Briedbach, crossed sword and crozer behind, value below, decorated edge. Extremely rare, minor edge defects, 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 6,80 g.

Catalog reference: KM 352, Pr. Alex. -; Schön -; Slg. Pick I (Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 405) -; Slg. Walther -.

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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