Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg 1719-IT pfennig
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This specimen was lot 4343 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €280 (about US$367 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SACHSEN, SACHSEN-GOTHA, HERZOGTUM, AB 1672 SACHSEN, Friedrich II. 1691-1732. Pfennig 1719, Gotha. Selten in dieser Erhaltung. Herrliche Patina, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (Germany, duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Frederick II, 1691-1732, pfennig of 1719, Gotha mint. Rare in this condition, beautiful patina, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"
This type was struck 1712-15, 1719, 1722. It is listed as silver but was probably billon.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 0.38 g.
Catalog reference: KM 185, Steguweit 191.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [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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