Pomerania 1670 2 schilling KM-241

from Stephen Album sale 32, lot 1203

This specimen was lot 1203 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $188. The catalog description^[1] noted, "POMERANIA: AR doppel-schilling, 1670, PCGS graded MS62, ex Don Erickson Collection." This type, worth 1/24 thaler, was struck 1662, 1666-70 while Pomerania was under Swedish rule. Other double schillings (KM 273, 247.1) were struck in 1670. Prussia nibbled away at the Swedish holdings until seizing the remainder in 1815.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM-241.

Source:

• Bjorne Ahlström, Yngve Almer and Bengt Hemmingson, Sveriges Mynt, 1521-1977, the Coinage of Sweden. Stockholm: Numismatika Bokforlaget AB, 1976.
• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
• ^[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:

• 1667 doppel-schilling (1/24 thaler)
• (1665-70) 4 ducats, governor Ernst Bogislaw von Croy
• Pomerania 1673-DS 1/3 thaler
• Pomerania-Wolgast 1673-DS 2/3 thaler
• Pomerania 1674 1/192 thaler
• Coins and currency dated 1670
• return to coins of German States, Pomerania