Baden 1832 6 kreuzer

Stephen Album sale 32, lot 1126

This specimen was lot 1126 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $105.75. The catalog description^[1] noted, "BADEN: Leopold, 1830-1852, AR 6 kreuzer, 1832, PCGS graded MS63, ex Don Erickson Collection." This type was struck 1831-36 and is common. In southern Germany, four pfennig = one kreuzer. In 1871, the currency was reformed to use pfennig and marks and the kreuzer was dropped.

Recorded mintage: 929,450.

Specification: 2.22 g, 0.375 fine silver, 19 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-198.1.

Source:

• Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.

Link to:

• 1819 6 kreuzer
• 1830 10 kreuzer
• 1832 thaler
• 1832 ducat
• 1840 6 kreuzer
• Coins and currency dated 1832
• return to German States, Baden-Durlach