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[[Image:SA53-2891.jpg|550px|thumb|Steve Album Auction 53, lot 2891]]

This specimen was lot 2891 in Steve Album Auction 53 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $216. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[German States, Aachen|AACHEN]]: Free City, AR 16 marck, 1752, well struck, two-year type, VF, ex Almer H. Orr III Collection." This type was struck 1752 and 1756. The reverse legend, "LOCUS·CORONATIONIS·CÆSAREÆ", translates as, "Location of the imperial coronation." While this was true for the Carolingians, by the early modern period, the emperors were crowned at Frankfurt. One thaler was theoretically thirty two marks but this coin is much too light to be a half thaler.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' 6 g, silver, 27 mm diameter.

''Catalog reference:'' KM-43, Cr-7.

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Craig, William D., ''[[Germany|Germanic]] Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II,'' Mountain View, CA: 1954. 
* Michael, Thomas, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, ''Auction 53, featuring Selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld, Almer H. Orr III, Dr. Dirk Loer and Joe Sedillot Collections,'' Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025. 

''Link to:''
* [[Aachen (1711) 16 marck]]
* [[Aachen (1752-56) 32 marck]]
* [[Aachen 1753 marck]]
* [[Aachen 1753 ducat Fr-11]]
* [[Aachen 1754 3 marck]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1752]]

[[Category:Selections from Stephen Album sale 53]][[Category: Minor coinage of the German states]]