Regensburg 1529 10 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 4214 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,300 (about US$1,701 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"REGENSBURG, STADT, 10 Kreuzer 1529, mit Titel Karls V. Münzmeister Hans Lutz. Selten in dieser Erhaltung. Feine Patina, winz. Schrötlingsfehler am Rand, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (Germany, city of Regensburg, ten kreuzer of 1529, in the name of Charles V. Rare in this condition, fine patina, edge defects, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"
At this point of the sixteenth century, ten kreuzer = 1/6 of a gulden and a gulden was 5/6 of a thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 5,56 g.
Catalog reference: KM MB36, Beckenbauer 1103; Slg. Bach (Auktion Künker 238) 4519.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Nicol, N. Douglas, Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of German Coins, 1501-Present, 3rd ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
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