Wurttemberg 1622 24 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 4438 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,700 (about US$2,225 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"WÜRTTEMBERG, WÜRTTEMBERG, HERZOGTUM, SEIT 1806 KÖNIGREICH. Johann Friedrich, 1608-1628. Kipper-24 Kreuzer 1622, Stuttgart. Selten, besonders in dieser Erhaltung. Sehr schön-vorzüglich. (Germany, duchy of Wurttemberg, John Frederick, 1608-28, kipper 24 kreuzer of 1622, Stuttgart mint. Scarce, especially in this condition, very fine to extremely fine.)"
The duke seems to have been an enthusiastic issuer of kipper coinage (debased and light weight). This one, KM 93, is unusual only that it is without mintmark. Other kipper 24 kreuzer include KM 92, 94, 95, 96, 97. After the kipperzeit inflation bubble burst about 1624, the coinage was recalled and melted down, accounting for its rarity today.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 4.82 g.
Catalog reference: KM 93, Klein/Raff 427.1.
- 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]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
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