Nurnberg 1773 kreuzer

Stephen Album sale 38, lot 3404

This specimen was lot 3404 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $47.60. The catalog description^[1] noted, "NUREMBERG: BI kreuzer, 1773, city view type, lustrous, Unc." The kreuzer was four pfennig and 1/120 of a thaler. We don't know how the engravers of the period managed to squeeze a city view onto this tiny coin.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: billon, this specimen 0.86 g.

Catalog reference: KM-367.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.

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