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[[Image:SB925-75027o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75027]]
 
[[Image:SB925-75027o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75027]]
 
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This specimen was lot 75027 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $216. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Germany|GERMANY]]. [[German States, Mainz|Mainz]]. 1/2 Kreutzer, 1795. Mainz Mint. Friedrich Karl Josef. NGC MS-65 Brown." Soldiers of revolutionary France occupied Mainz in October 1792, causing the archbishop to flee. Coalition forces besieged and captured the city in July 1793 after a heavy bombardment. The archbishop struck quarter, half, [[Mainz 1795-IA kreuzer|one]], [[Mainz 1795-IA 5 kreuzer|five]] and [[Mainz 1795-IA 10 kreuzer|ten kreuzer]] in 1795-96, just before his domain was annexed by the French republic. The archbishopric was mediatized in 1803.
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The first specimen was lot 75027 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $216. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Germany|GERMANY]]. [[German States, Mainz|Mainz]]. 1/2 Kreutzer, 1795. Mainz Mint. Friedrich Karl Josef. NGC MS-65 Brown." Soldiers of revolutionary France occupied Mainz in October 1792, causing the archbishop to flee. Coalition forces besieged and captured the city in July 1793 after a heavy bombardment. The archbishop struck quarter, half, [[Mainz 1795-IA kreuzer|one]], [[Mainz 1795-IA 5 kreuzer|five]] and [[Mainz 1795-IA 10 kreuzer|ten kreuzer]] in 1795-96, just before his domain was annexed by the French republic. The archbishopric was mediatized in 1803. The second specimen was lot 42283 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2026), where it sold for $3,120. The catalog description<sup>[2]</sup> noted, "GERMANY. Mainz. Gold Off-Metal Kreuzer of 1/2 Ducat Weight, 1795-IA. Mainz Mint. Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal. NGC MS-64. An astonishing near-Gem survivor of this intriguing gold off-metal issue. Clearly struck from fresh dies, the fields awash with watery and nearly Prooflike luster and with an impressively struck-up portrait."
  
 
''Recorded mintage'': unknown.
 
''Recorded mintage'': unknown.
  
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''Specification'': 3.6 g, copper, 22.7 mm diameter.
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''Specification'': 3.6 g, copper, 22.7 mm diameter. The second specimen is gold, 1.75 g.  
  
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''Catalog reference'': KM-403.
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''Catalog reference'': KM-403. The second specimen is KM-Pn23; Walther-658; Pick-794.  
  
 
''[[Bibliography|Sources:]]''  
 
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* Michael, Thomas, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.  
 
* 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, ''September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection and Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection'', Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
 
* <sup>[1]</sup>Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, ''September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection and Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection'', Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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* <sup>[2]</sup>Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, ''January 2026 NYINC Showcase Auction, Ancient and World Coins, featuring the Kazmier Wysocki Collection'', Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
  
 
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* [[Coins and currency dated 1795]]
 
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Revision as of 12:55, 29 January 2026

Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75027
SB925-75027r.jpg
from Stack's Bowers 2026 NYINC sale, lot 42283
SB126-42283r.jpg

The first specimen was lot 75027 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $216. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Mainz. 1/2 Kreutzer, 1795. Mainz Mint. Friedrich Karl Josef. NGC MS-65 Brown." Soldiers of revolutionary France occupied Mainz in October 1792, causing the archbishop to flee. Coalition forces besieged and captured the city in July 1793 after a heavy bombardment. The archbishop struck quarter, half, one, five and ten kreuzer in 1795-96, just before his domain was annexed by the French republic. The archbishopric was mediatized in 1803. The second specimen was lot 42283 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2026), where it sold for $3,120. The catalog description[2] noted, "GERMANY. Mainz. Gold Off-Metal Kreuzer of 1/2 Ducat Weight, 1795-IA. Mainz Mint. Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal. NGC MS-64. An astonishing near-Gem survivor of this intriguing gold off-metal issue. Clearly struck from fresh dies, the fields awash with watery and nearly Prooflike luster and with an impressively struck-up portrait."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 3.6 g, copper, 22.7 mm diameter. The second specimen is gold, 1.75 g.

Catalog reference: KM-403. The second specimen is KM-Pn23; Walther-658; Pick-794.

Sources:

  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection and Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
  • [2]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, January 2026 NYINC Showcase Auction, Ancient and World Coins, featuring the Kazmier Wysocki Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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