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[[Image:SB1122-74730o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers November 2022 Collectors Choice sale, lot 74730]]
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[[Image:Stolberg 1789.jpg|500px|thumb|Muhlhausen in 1789, between Eichsfeld and Schwarzburg]]

This specimen was lot 74730 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, November 2022), where it sold for $100. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Germany|GERMANY]]. [[German States, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen|Muhlhausen-Thuringen]]. 6 Pfenning, 1737. NGC MS-64. After nearly three hundred years, this minor still looks just about as fresh as it did when it left the mint. Apart from magenta-gray tone present across the tops of the devices, surfaces are pure argent and billowing with satiny luster. As the single 'top pop' in the NGC census, specialists should take note and bid generously, opportunities to acquire such a fine example almost never arise." There are two towns named Muhlhausen in Germany; one now in French Alsace, and this one in Thuringia, between Eichsfeld and Schwarzburg. Long an imperial free city, it was mediatized to Prussia in 1802. This issue accompanied a 2 pfenninge (KM 55), 3 pfenninge (KM 56.1), 2/3 thaler ([[Muhlhausen 1737 2/3 thaler|KM 60]]), 1/24 thaler (KM 58) and 1/12 thaler (KM 59). The series was the first issue of coinage since 1707 and the last until 1767. None are common.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' billon.

''Catalog reference:'' KM-57.1.

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Michael, Thomas, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, ''The November 2022 Collectors Choice Ancient & World Coins Auction, Featuring the Pat Johnson Collection,'' Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

''Link to:''
* [[Muhlhausen 1737 2/3 thaler]]
* [[Muhlhausen 1767 6 pfenninge]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1737]]

[[Category:Selections from the Stack's Bowers 2022 Collector's Choice sale]][[Category:Minor coinage of the German states]]

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