Paderborn 1766-IAS 20 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 4321 in Künker sale 406 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €800 (about US$1,050 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"PADERBORN, BISTUM, Wilhelm Anton von der Asseburg, 1763-1782. 20 Kreuzer 1766, Neuhaus. Prachtexemplar. Sehr selten, besonders in dieser Erhaltung. Feiner Prägeglanz, fast Stempelglanz. (Germany, bishopric of Paderborn, William Anthony of Asseburg, 1763-82, twenty kreuzer of 1766, Neuhaus mint. Cabinet example, very scarce in this quality, fine luster, about uncirculated.)"
This type was struck 1766-67. There is an extensive series of dreigroschen or 1/12 thaler from this state but only a few 20 kreuzer or 1/6 thaler. Paderborn, like Hildesheim, retained a Catholic bishop long after all of the inhabitants had gone over to Lutheranism. William Anton was a canon of the cathedral and was not ordained a priest until after he was elected bishop. He saved the diocese from dissolution during the Seven Years War and helped to rebuild it thereafter. Paderborn was mediatized in 1802 and passed to Prussia.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.68 g, 0.583 fine silver, this specimen 6.65 g.
Catalog reference: KM 234.3, Schwede 321 A/a; Weing. 219.
- 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]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 406: Gold Coins | Coins and Medals from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. Löwenstein-Wertheim | German Coins after 1871, a. o. Patterns from the Coenen Collection, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.
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