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[[Image:SB1125-77183o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers November 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 77183]]
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[[Image:Aachen 1547.jpg|550px|thumb|Aachen in 1547]]

This specimen was lot 77183 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, November 2025), where it sold for $480. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Germany|GERMANY]]. [[German States, Aachen|Aachen]]. Groschen, 1405. VERY FINE. Light deposits and waviness." This obscure little coin would be completely ignored by collectors except that it is one of the first coins to bear AD dates. It is known dated 1372-75, 1402-05, 1410-13, 1418-22 and 1429 with a wide range of weights. Aachen was the capital of Charlemagne's empire and remained a free city until 1794, when it was occupied by the army of revolutionary France.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' 1.65-2.65 g, silver, 25 mm diameter, this specimen 2.58 g.

''Catalog reference:'' Levinson-I-8; Menandier-101A.

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Levinson, Robert, ''The Early Dated Coins of Europe, 1234-1500: An Illustrated Catalogue and Guide to dated medieval coinage.'' Clifton, NJ: Coin & Currency Institute, 2007.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, ''Auction 47'', Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2023.

''Link to:''
* [[Aachen 1404 groschen|1404 groschen]]
* [[Aachen 1411 groschen|1411 groschen]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1405]]

[[Category:Selections from the Stack's Bowers 2025 Collectors Choice sale]][[Category: Minor coinage of the German states]]

Aachen 1405 groschen - Revision history

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