View source for Trier 1683 4 pfennig KM-154

[[Image:SB124-56593 obv.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers 2024 NYINC sale, lot 56593]]
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This specimen was lot 56593 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2024), where it sold for $90. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Germany|GERMANY]]. [[German States, Trier|Trier]]. 4 Pfennig, 1683. Johann Hugo von Orsbeck. NGC MS-64." This denomination was struck in several varieties 1682-89 and is not listed as expensive. The archbishopric of Trier was an ecclesiastical state on the Moselle, upriver of Coblenz. Once an important trade center, the reason the archbishopric was sited there, the city was badly damaged during the Thirty Years War and never recovered. Most of its coinage is rare but the four pfennig or half albus was struck throughout the century and is fairly common. Trier was seized by France in 1794 and fell to Prussia at the Congress of Vienna.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' silver or billon.

''Catalog reference:'' KM-154.

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed.'', Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, ''January 2024 NYINC Auction, featuring the Emilio M Ortiz Collection and a Symphony of Russian Rarities, the Rothschild-Piatigorsky Collection,'' Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.

''Link to:''
* [[Trier 1679 4 pfennig KM-126|1679 4 pfennig]] = ½ albus
* [[Trier 1680-AL albus]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1683]]

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