Silesia 1696-CB 3 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 55528 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2024), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[1] noted, "BOHEMIA. Silesia. Groschen (3 Kreuzer), 1696-CB. Brieg Mint. Leopold I. NGC MS-64. Mistakenly noted on NGC holder as 1696-EB and Prague mint." This type is listed in the SCWC under Silesia. Known dates include 1676, 1695-1702 and 1705. It is fairly common. This denomination was struck at various mints all over the Hapsburg domains. Three kreuzer were 1/20 gulden or 1/30 thaler in the seventeenth century. With the introduction of the convention thaler around 1740, the denomination would slip to 1/40 thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, 21.3 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-516.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- 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, January 2024 NYINC Auction, featuring the Emilio M Ortiz Collection and a Symphony of Russian Rarities, the Rothschild-Piatigorsky Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.
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