Nurnberg 1568 60 kreuzer
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This specimen was lot 45767 in Stack's Bowers Summer 2026 Global Showcase Auction (Pittsburgh, September 2026), where it sold for $195.20. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Nuremberg. 60 Kreuzer (Gulden), 1568. Nuremberg Mint. PCGS Genuine--Edge Repaired, EF Details. From the Heisner Collection from Down Under." This coin is an early gulden of 1565-76, which was always fixed at sixty kreuzer. The gulden was originally equal to a thaler, then five-sixths of a thaler, then defined as two-thirds of a thaler in the seventeenth century. Half and double reichsguldiner exist.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 24.6 g, 0.931 fine silver.
Catalog reference: Dav-82 (2/3rds); KM-MB66.
- Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
- Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1500-1600, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1979.
- Nicol, N. Douglas, Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of German Coins, 1501-Present, 3rd ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, Summer 2026 Global Showcase Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2026.
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