Saxe-Neu-Weimar 1684-ICS 6 pfennig

Stack's Bowers 2024 NYINC sale, lot 56558

This specimen was lot 56558 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2024), where it sold for $90. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Saxe-Neu-Weimar. 6 Pfennig, 1684-ICS. Wilhelm Ernst. PCGS AU-58." Saxe-Neu-Weimar was one of the splinter states erected during one of the many divisions of Saxony in the seventeenth century. The line went extinct in 1741 and passed to Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. This was the first issue of this denomination since 1653, and the last until 1737. It is not priced in the SCWC.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver or billon.

Catalog reference: KM 120, Koppe-439; Merseburger-3952.

Source:

• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, January 2024 NYINC Auction, featuring the Emilio M Ortiz Collection and a Symphony of Russian Rarities, the Rothschild-Piatigorsky Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.

Link to:

• 1677 ⅔ thaler, bust without circle
• 1683-PP thaler, on the death of Johann Ernst
• Saxe-Jena 1691 groschen, death of Johann Wilhelm
• 1717 thaler
• Coins and currency dated 1684