Werden and Helmstedt 1730 6 mariengroschen
This specimen was lot 1383 in Künker sale 293 (Osnabruck, Germany, July 2017), where it sold for €700 (about US$944 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"WERDEN UND HELMSTEDT, ABTEI, Benedikt von Geismar, 1728-1757. 6 Mariengroschen 1730, Köln. R Vorzüglich. (abbey of Werden and Helstedt, Benedict of Geismar, 1728-57, six mariengroschen of 1730, Cologne mint. Scarce, extremely fine.)"
Werden and Helmstaedt were two widely separated abbeys in Germany; Werden in the Ruhr valley on the border of the duchy of Berg and Helmstaedt in the duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel. A series of very rare thalers (Dav-5918 thru -5931) were struck for them in the seventeenth century. They were annexed by Prussia in 1803.
Recorded mintage: unknown but scarce.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: Grote 58, KM 69.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Katalog 293: Münzen aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit u. a. die westfälischen Privatsammlungen Werner Bröker und Bernd Terletzki, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2017.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
Link to:
- 1698 thaler
- 1765 thaler
- Coins and currency dated 1730
- return to coins of German States, Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel