Silesia 1667-SHS 3 kreuzer

Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale, lot 70337

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 70337 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, June 2021), where it sold for $132. The catalog description^[1] noted, "BOHEMIA. 3 Kreuzer, 1667-SHS. Breslau (Wroclaw) Mint. Leopold I. PCGS MS-64. KM-471 (Germany/Silesia) = KM-79 (Austria) = KM-1230 (Austria). A delightful hammered specimen, this near-Gem, fully argent minor presents great brilliance on each side." This type was struck 1665-72, 1693-98 at Breslau but similar dreikreuzer were struck all over the Hapsburg dominions, hence the multiple catalog numbers in the auction listing.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 1.59 g, silver, 21 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-471.

Source:

• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The June 2021 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

Link to:

• 1662-GH thaler, Breslau mint, Leopold I
• 1664 3 kreuzer, Hall mint, archduke Sigismund Francis
• 1669-SHS 3 kreuzer, Breslau mint, Leopold I
• Coins and currency dated 1667