Nurnberg 1580 60 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 204 in Sincona sale 69 (Zürich, May 2021), where it sold for 325 CHF (about US$431 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"DEUTSCHLAND | Nurnberg, City. Reichsguldiner 1580. Mit Titel Rudolphs II. Sehr selten. Sehr schön. Korrodiert. (Germany, city of Nuremberg, guldiner of 1580, struck in the name of Rudolf II. Very rare, Very fine, Corroded.)"
This type was struck 1576-84 and is fairly common. It is an early gulden, 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.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 23.91 g.
Catalog reference: KM MB74, Slg. Erlanger 247. Kellner 123. Dav-10034.
- 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]Jürg Richter, Auction 69, World Coins and Medals, Bullion Auction and Chinese Banknotes, Part 1, Zürich: Sincona AG, 2021.
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