Mainz 1765-S FB 20 kreuzer

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Künker sale 404, lot 2498

This specimen was lot 2498 in Künker sale 404 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €40 (about US$53 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"DAS ERZBISTUM MAINZ. ERZBISCHOF EMMERICH JOSEPH VON BREIDBACH-BÜRRESHEIM, 1763-1774. Die Münzstätte Mainz. 20 Kreuzer (1/6 Konventionstaler) 1765, Mainz. Münzmeister Damian Fritsch. Wardein Peter Mortiz Brahm. Stempelschneider August Friedrich Stieler. Mit kleinem Brustbild und Vollschriftkreis. Brustbild r. in geistlichem Ornat, im Armabschnitt die Signatur S//Mit Kurhut bedecktes, vierfeldiges Wappen (Mainz/Breidbach) auf Kartusche mit Wertzahl 20, dahinter Schwert und Krummstab gekreuzt, unten zu den Seiten die geteilte Signatur F - B. Mit schräg gekerbtem Rand. Sehr schön. Erworben 2020 von Dirk Löbbers, Wettringen. (Germany, archbishopric of Mainz, Emmerich Joseph of Breidbach-Bürresheim, 1763-74, twenty kreuzer or one-sixth convention thaler of 1765, Mainz mint, with small bust and uninterrupted obverse legend. Obverse: bust right in episcopal mantle, initial on truncation; reverse: capped quartered arms of Mainz and Briedbach, crossed sword and crozer behind, value below, obliquely reeded edge. 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 6,60 g.

Catalog reference: KM 351, Eckhart Pick, Das Mainzer Medailleursquartett Abb. 2; Pr. Alex. 719; Schön 51; Slg. Pick I (Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 405) 707; 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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