Wurzburg 1795-MM 20 kreuzer KM-448

Stephen Album sale 43, lot 1276

This specimen was lot 1276 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $420. The catalog description^[1] noted, "WÜRZBURG: Georg Karl von Fechenbach, 1795-1808, AR 20 kreuzer, 1795, mintmaster MM, a superb lustrous mint state example! PCGS graded MS65." The bishop issued six different twenty kreuzer in 1795 (KM 447, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452), of which this is fairly available. Many of the bishops were also bishops of Bamberg but not Georg Carl. His domain was secularized in 1803 and annexed to Bavaria, where it remains. Twenty kreuzer = 1/6 thaler in the late eighteenth century.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM-448.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 43, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.

Link to:

• 1785 20 kreuzer
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• 1795 20 kreuzer, Madonna and Child reverse
• 1795-MM thaler
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• Coins and currency dated 1795