Wurttemberg-Oels 1675-SP 3 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 2609 in Steve Album Auction 52 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $132. The catalog description[1] noted, "WÜRTTEMBERG-ÖLS: Silvius II Frederick, 1664-1697, AR 3 kreuzer, 1675, SP mintmaster initials, struck with roller dies, scarce year, a pleasing lustrous mint state example! PCGS graded MS62, ex Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection." Altho Wurttemberg is in Swabia, the southwest of Germany, the duchy of Oels is in Silesia, where a scion of the Wurttemberg dukes married the heiress of one of the original (pre-Austrian) Polish dukes. The dukes struck this denomination 1674-78. This type is noted for 1674-75. In the late seventeenth century, one thaler was ninety kreuzer, making this coin 1/30 of a thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 1.44-1.63 g, silver, 21-22 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-8.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Dustin Wagner, Auction 52, featuring the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection and the Almer H. Orr III Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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