Mainz 1766-FB 30 kreuzer

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Künker sale 404, lot 2497

This specimen was lot 2497 in Künker sale 404 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €130 (about US$171 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) 1766, Mainz. Münzmeister Damian Fritsch. Wardein Peter Mortiz Brahm. Stempelschneider August Friedrich Stieler. Brustbild r. in geistlichem Ornat, im Armabschnitt die Signatur ST//Mit Kurhut bedecktes, zweifeldiges Wappen (Mainz/Breidbach) auf Postament mit Wertzahl 30, dahinter Schwert und Krummstab gekreuzt, zu den Seiten die geteilte Signatur F - B. Mit Kettenrand. R Stempelfehler, sehr schön. Erworben 2012 vom Münzenhandel Knopik, Eckartsberga. (Germany, archbishopric of Mainz, Emmerich Joseph of Breidbach-Bürresheim, 1763-74, thirty kreuzer or one quarter convention thaler of 1766, Mainz mint. Obverse: bust right in episcopal mantle, initial on truncation; reverse: capped adjacent arms of Mainz and Briedbach, crossed sword and crozer behind, value below, decorated edge. Rare, die break, 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 6,84 g.

Catalog reference: KM 359, Schön 54; Slg. Pick I (Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 405) 720; Slg. Walther 603.

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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