Montfort 1679 60 kreuzer KM-63
This specimen was lot 3108 in Sincona sale 39 (Zürich, May 2017), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted,
"Montfort, Grafschaft, Johann VIII. 1662-1686 60 Kreuzer (Gulden) 1679. Langenargen Mit COM * - * ES DE in der Vorderseitenumschrift. XXX Seltene Variante. Fast vorzüglich. Leicht justiert. (Germany, county of Montfort, John VIII, 1662-86, sixty kreuzer (= gulden) of 1679. Rare variety. About extremely fine. Minor adjustment marks.)"
Montfort is an extremely obscure locality on the shore of Lake Constance in Wurttemberg. We have filed it under Austria as the counts sold out to the Austrian emperor in 1780. This type is a gulden, not a thaler, and so is excluded from our list of such. Four varieties exist for this rare issue.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 17.99 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-685 A Var, Ebner 114, KM 63.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
- [1]Jürg Richter, Auction 39, World coins and medals, coins and medals from Switzerland, Zürich: Sincona AG, 2017.
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