Wurttemberg 1825-W gulden
This specimen was lot 4533 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabruck, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €200 (about US$262 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"WÜRTTEMBERG, WÜRTTEMBERG, HERZOGTUM, SEIT 1806 KÖNIGREICH. Wilhelm I. 1816-1864. Gulden 1825. Sehr schön. (Germany, kingdom of Wurttemberg, William I, 1816-64, gulden of 1825. Very fine.)"
This gulden, the first struck in Wurttemberg since 1616, was one of three types struck 1824-25. All are rare. When production of the gulden resumed in 1837, the coin was reduced in weight to 10.60 g but raised to 0.900 fine silver so as to contain the same amount of silver.
Recorded mintage: 9,220.
Specification: 12.72 g, 0.750 fine silver, this specimen 12.68 g.
Catalog reference: KM 558, AKS 80; J. 53.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- 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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