Cleves 1485 stuber

Künker sale 336, lot 3244

This specimen was lot 3244 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabruck, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €550 (about US$720 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"JÜLICH-KLEVE-BERG, KLEVE, GRAFSCHAFT, SEIT 1417 HERZOGTUM. Johann II. 1481-1521. Stüber 1485, Wesel. Schwanenstüber. Selten in dieser Erhaltung. Vorzüglich. (Germany, duchy of Julich, Cleves and Berg, John II, 1481-1521, "swan" stuber of 1485, Wesel mint. Rare in this quality, extremely fine.)"

The stuber was equivalent to the Dutch stuiver.

The affairs of the dukes of Cleve, Berg and Julich are tangled even by German standards as the three separate lines intermarried and quarreled. Eventually the collateral lines fell extinct and one lord ruled them all, which by then also included Mark and Upper Gelderland. This line in turn fell extinct about 1609 and the lands were claimed by the elector of Brandenburg and the elector of the Palatinate. The war they fought over it was one of the side conflicts of the Thirty Years War but eventually they partitioned it.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 2.73 g.

Catalog reference: Noss 158; Levinson I-200.

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.
• ^[1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, 'Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.

Link to:

• Berg (1448-81) goldgulden Fr-1368
• Julich-Cleve-Berg 1501 goldgulden Fr-1381
• Coins and currency dated 1485