Trier 1659 4 pfennig
This specimen was lot 1631 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "TRIER: Karl Kaspar von der Leyen, 1652-1676, AR 4 pfennig, 1659, date in Roman numerals, well struck, EF to About Unc." The archbishopric of Trier was an ecclesiastical state on the Moselle, upriver of Coblenz. Once an important trade center, the reason the archbishopric was sited there, the city was badly damaged during the Thirty Years War and never recovered. Most of its coinage is rare but the four pfennig or half albus was struck throughout the century and is fairly common. This type was struck 1656-66. Trier was seized by France in 1794 and fell to Prussia at the Congress of Vienna.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: silver or billon.
Catalog reference: KM-121.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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