Transylvania 1627-NB groschen
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This specimen was lot 75769 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $125. The catalog description[1] noted, "TRANSYLVANIA. Groschen, 1627. Gabriel Bethlen. PCGS EF-40. Well-centered and nicely preserved with a grainy charcoal finish." This type was struck 1626-29 with mintmarks NB (shown here), MC and CC. Gabriel Bethlen (r. 1618-29), a Calvinist, used Ottoman support to resist Hapsburg encroachment. He was elected king of Hungary in 1620 but never managed to claim that country.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 2.2 g, silver, 25 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-169.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Adolf Resch, Siebenburgische Münzen und Medaillen von 1538 bis Gegenwart. Hermannstadt, 1901 (reprinted in Montreal, 1965).
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, October 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the S.P. Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
Link to:
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