Teutonic Order 1776-WWE 20 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 4288 in Künker sale 406 (Osnabruck, March 2024), where it sold for €360 (about US$472 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"DEUTSCHER ORDEN IN MERGENTHEIM, Carl Alexander von Lothringen, 1761-1780. 20 Kreuzer 1776, Wertheim. Münzwardein Christian Franz Weber und Münzmeister Johann Christoph Eberhard. Feine Tönung, kl. Prägeschwäche, vorzüglich. (Teutonic Order, Charles Alexander of Lorraine, 1761-80, twenty kreuzer of 1776, Wertheim mint. Fine toning, slightly weakly struck, extremely fine.)"
In the late eighteenth century, the Teutonic Order was in advanced decay, the Order's holdings being reduced to a few abbeys in Germany. The last remnants of their domains were secularized in 1805-10. Twenty kreuzer was one-sixth of a convention thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown but scarce.
Specification: silver, this specimen 6.65 g.
Catalog reference: KM 149, Prokisch 249 A/a; Beck/Morschek 32.5.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- 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, Katalog 406: Gold Coins | Coins and Medals from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. Löwenstein-Wertheim | German Coins after 1871, a. o. Patterns from the Coenen Collection, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.
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