Oldenburg 1865-B groschen

Stephen Album sale 32, lot 1202

This specimen was lot 1202 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $105.75. The catalog description^[1] noted, "OLDENBURG: AR groschen, 1865-B, PCGS graded MS65, ex Don Erickson Collection." This type was struck 1858, 1864-69. The grand duke of Oldenburg survived the Napoleonic mediatization and the Prussian annexations to issue coinage during the Wilhelmine empire. However, his state on the North Sea remained windswept and impoverished and his coinage is scanty.

Recorded mintage: 30,000.

Specification: 2.19 g, .220 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM-194.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• 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 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.

Link to:

• Birkenfeld 1858-B 1/2 silber groschen
• 1866 thaler
• 1869-B 3 schwaren
• Coins and currency dated 1865
• return to German States, Oldenburg