Nurnberg 1624 60 kreuzer KM-74
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This specimen was lot 4172 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,400 (about US$1,832 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"NÜRNBERG, STADT. Guldentaler (60 Kreuzer) 1624, mit Titel Ferdinands II. RR Kratzer, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (Germany, city of Nurnberg, gulden of 1624, in the name of Ferdinand II, Rare, scratches, very fine to extremely fine.)"
This gulden features an angel face hovering over two shields. We also note another gulden, KM 42, with shields and cherubs on the obverse and the imperial eagle on the reverse, that was struck 1620-35.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 23,93 g.
Catalog reference: KM-74, Dav-92; Kellner 204.
- 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]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
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