Mainz 1766-ST FB 1/2 thaler

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Künker sale 404, lot 2493

This specimen was lot 2493 in Künker sale 404 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €280 (about US$367 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"DAS ERZBISTUM MAINZ. ERZBISCHOF EMMERICH JOSEPH VON BREIDBACH-BÜRRESHEIM, 1763-1774. Die Münzstätte Mainz. ½ Konv.-Taler 1766, Mainz. Münzmeister Damian Fritsch. Münzwardein Peter Moritz Brahm. Stempelschneider August Friedrich Stieler. Brustbild r. in geistlichem Ornat, darunter Signatur S • T://Mit Kurhut bedeckte Wappenschilde (Mainz/Breidbach) nebeneinander auf Kartusche mit Wertzahl 20, dahinter Schwert und Krummstab gekreuzt, unten zu den Seiten die geteilte Signatur F - B. Mit Randschrift: DEO (Verzierung) PATRIÆ ET (Verzierung) SVBDITIS (Verzierung). Sehr schön. Exemplar der Auktion WAG Online 78, September 2017, Nr. 1040. (Germany, archbishopric of Mainz, Emmerich Joseph of Breidbach-Bürresheim, 1763-74, half thaler of 1766, Mainz mint. Obverse: bust right in episcopal mantle, initials below; reverse: capped arms of Mainz and Breidbach in adjacent cartouches, crossed sword and crozier behind, value below, lettered 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: 14.03 g, 0.833 fine silver, this specimen 13,89 g.

Catalog reference: KM 360, Eckhart Pick, Das Mainzer Medailleursquartett Abb. 2; Schön 55; Slg. Pick I (Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 405) -; Slg. Walther 602.

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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