Trier 1680-AL albus
This specimen was lot 42975 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2019), where it sold for $264. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Trier. Albus, 1680. Johann Hugo von Orsbeck (1676-1711). PCGS MS-64 Gold Shield. Gem quality for the type with surfaces that show no signs of handling and are bathed in attractive blue, green, rose and yellow tone on both sides." An albus was eight pfennig. We see no albus listed in the SCWC after 1652 but we see a 4 pfennig (KM 126, 138, 146) and 1/3 thaler (KM 147) listed for 1680. 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.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: Schrotter-761ff.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio, Matt Orsini and Cris Chatigny, The January 2019 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2018.
Link to:
- 1624 thaler
- 1679 4 pfennig = ½ albus
- 1683 4 pfennig
- Coins and currency dated 1680
- return to coins of German States, Trier