Prussia 1754-C 4 kreuzer

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Künker sale 353, lot 3721

This specimen was lot 3721 in Künker sale 353 (Osnabrück, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €360 (about US$501 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"BRANDENBURG-PREUSSEN, PREUSSEN, KÖNIGREICH, Friedrich II. der Große, 1740-1786. 4 Kreuzer 1754, C, Cleve. Prägung für die westlichen Landesteile. Selten, besonders in dieser Erhaltung. Fast vorzüglich. Exemplar der Slg. Hensgen, Auktion Kölner Münzkabinett 46, Köln 1988, Nr. 735. (Germany, kingdom of Prussia, Frederick II the Great, 1740-86, four kreuzer of 1754, Cleve mint, struck for the western provinces. Scarce in this quality, about extremely fine.)"

The four kreuzer, or batzen, is a denomination familiar to Swiss collectors and other areas of South Germany. Cleve, in the far west of Germany, near the Dutch border, struck this type 1754-55. The plate coin in the SCWC shows a distinctly different reverse than the example shown here. The SCWC notes that one thaler was forty batzen.

Recorded mintage: 1,718,000 for 1754-55.

Specification: billon, this specimen 1,99 g.

Catalog reference: KM 57 (listed under Cleve), Olding 288 a; Kluge 291.1.

Source:

  • 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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