Prussia 1753-B 18 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 3727 in Künker sale 353 (Osnabrück, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €200 (about US$278 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BRANDENBURG-PREUSSEN, PREUSSEN, KÖNIGREICH, Friedrich II. der Große, 1740-1786. 18 Kreuzer 1753, B, Breslau. Prägung für die Provinz Schlesien. Schlesischer Typ. Mit FRIDERICVS BORVSSORVM REX in der Vorderseitenumschrift. Fast vorzüglich. Erworben am 2.12.1978. (Germany, kingdom of Prussia, Frederick II the Great, 1740-86, eighteen kreuzer of 1753, Breslau mint, struck for the province of Silesia, Silesian type with "FRIDERICVS BORVSSORVM REX" in the obverse legend. About extremely fine.)"
After Frederick the Great seized Silesia in 1742, he issued kreuzer denominated coinage for the province which did not directly convert into the thaler-based coinage used in the rest of the realm. One, three, six, 15 and 18 kreuzer were issued along with one and two groschel pieces. This type was struck 1752-54 and was the first time Frederick issued this denomination. The last 18 kreuzer was struck in 1758.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 5,84 g.
Catalog reference: KM 969.1 (listed under Silesia), Olding 293 a; Kluge 293.2.
- 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, Künker Auktion 353: Die Sammlung Axel Tesmer, Teil 2: Prägungen der Könige von Preussen von der Kroning 1701 bis zum Ende der Monarchie. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2021.
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- 1752-D quarter stuber, date on obverse
- 1752-D quarter stuber, date on reverse
- 1752-D 4 pfennig
- 1752-E groschen
- 1752-B kreuzer
- 1752-B 3 kreuzer
- 1752-B 2 groschel
- 1752-D mariengroschen
- 1752-F mariengroschen
- 1752-F 2 mariengroschen
- 1752-D 2 mariengroschen
- 1752-F 4 mariengroschen
- 1752-W E 3 groscher
- 1752-S E 6 groscher
- 1752-W E 6 groscher
- 1752-A 1/48 thaler
- 1752-B 1/48 thaler
- (1752)-A 1/24 thaler, muled dies
- 1752-A 1/24 thaler, date on reverse
- 1752-F 1/24 thaler
- 1752-A 1/12 thaler, bare bust
- 1752-B 1/12 thaler
- 1752-C 1/12 thaler
- 1752-D 1/12 thaler
- 1752-F 1/12 thaler
- 1752-A 1/6 thaler, armored bust
- 1752-A 1/6 thaler, bare bust
- 1752-B 1/6 thaler
- 1752-F 1/6 thaler
- 1752-E 18 groscher
- 1752-S E 18 groscher
- 1752-B 18 kreuzer
- 1752-B quarter thaler
- 1752-B half thaler
- 1752-A thaler
- 1752-C thaler
- 1752-A halb friedrichs d'or, uniformed bust
- 1752-A halb friedrichs d'or, bare bust
- 1752-B halb friedrichs d'or
- 1752-A friedrichs d'or, bare bust
- 1752-A friedrichs d'or, uniformed bust
- 1752-B friedrichs d'or, uniformed bust
- 1752-C friedrichs d'or
- 1753-D quarter stuber
- 1753 duit, Cleves mint
- 1753-C 2 stuber
- 1753-D 4 pfennig
- 1753-D mariengroschen
- 1753-E 2 groscher
- 1753-E 3 groscher
- 1753-St E 3 groscher
- 1753-St E 6 groscher
- 1753-E 6 groscher
- 1753-G 6 groscher
- 1753-A 8 gute groschen
- 1753-F 8 gute groschen
- 1753-G 8 gute groschen
- 1753-F 1/48 thaler
- 1753-G 1/48 thaler
- 1753-A 1/24 thaler, monogram divides the date
- 1753-G 1/24 thaler
- 1753-B 1/12 thaler
- 1753-C 1/6 thaler
- 1753-D 1/6 thaler
- 1753-F 1/6 thaler
- 1753-G 1/6 thaler
- 1753-E 18 groscher
- 1753-G 18 groscher
- 1753-C thaler
- 1753-A halb friedrichs d'or, bare bust
- 1753-C halb friedrichs d'or, bare bust
- 1754-B 2 groschel
- 1754-C quarter stuber
- 1754-C 4 kreuzer
- 1754-B 18 kreuzer
- Coins and currency dated 1753