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Revision as of 14:26, 14 July 2022
This specimen was lot 71165 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, June 2021), where it sold for $204. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Mainz. Siege Sol, 1793. Friedrich Karl Josef. NGC MS-61 Brown. Struck during the siege of Mainz which took place between 14 April to 23 July 1793. Perfectly centered with a touch of central weakness on both sides that prevents a finer grade." This type was accompanied by a five sols and two sols, also copied from French revolutionary coinage. The archbishopric was mediatized and partitioned in 1803; the part west of the Rhine had already been annexed to France.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper or brass.
Catalog reference: KM-601; Gad-65.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The June 2021 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.
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- 1793 2 sols
- Mainz 1793 5 sols siege coinage
- Coins and currency dated 1793