Mainz 1765-FB 5 kreuzer

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Künker sale 404, lot 2503

This specimen was lot 2503 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. 5 Kreuzer (1/24 Konventionstaler) 1765, Mainz. Münzmeister Damian Fritsch. Wardein Peter Moritz Brahm. Mit Kurhut bedecktes, zweifeldiges Wappen (Mainz/Breidbach) auf Postament mit Wertzahl 5, dahinter Schwert und Krummstab gekreuzt//In einer Raute IUS / TIRT / 1765 / F » B / », umher 240 - EINE - FEINE - MARK. Sehr schön. Erworben 2021 von Dirk Löbbers, Wettringen. (Germany, archbishopric of Mainz, Emmerich Joseph of Breidbach-Bürresheim, 1763-74, five kreuzer or 1/24 convention thaler of 1765, Mainz mint. Obverse: capped impaled arms of Mainz and Breidbach on a pedestal with the value, cross sword and crozier behind; reverse: value and date in rhombus. 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 1,89 g.

Catalog reference: KM 349, Pr. Alex. 721; Schön 47; Slg. Pick I (Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 405) 714 (Lot); 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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