Olmutz 1779-W 10 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 834 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "OLMÜTZ: Antonín Theodor of Colloredo-Waldsee, 1777-1811, AR 10 kreuzer, 1779, a scarce location and type, an attractive piece, XF-AU, ex Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection." This type was struck in Vienna for this ecclesiastical state in Moravia, then part of Austria, now the Czech Republic. It seems to be the only issue of this denomination. It was accompanied by a twenty kreuzer (KM 482), half thaler (KM 484), thaler (KM 486) and ducat (KM 488). Ten kreuzer made one twelfth of a convention thaler.
Recorded mintage: 6,000.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM-480 (formerly KM 185).
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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