Nurnberg 1564 60 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 200 in Sincona sale 69 (Zürich, May 2021), where it sold for 375 CHF (about US$498 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"DEUTSCHLAND | Nurnberg, City. Reichsguldiner 1564. Mit Titel Ferdinands I. Attraktives sehr schön. (Germany, city of Nuremberg, guldiner of 1564, struck in the name of Ferdinand I. Attractive very fine.)"
This type was struck 1559-64. It is much scarcer than the slightly later Dav-82. This coin is an early gulden, which was always fixed at sixty kreuzer. The gulden was originally equal to a thaler, then five-sixths of a thaler, then defined as two-thirds of a thaler in the seventeenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 24.66 g.
Catalog reference: KM MB53, Kellner 141. Dav-10030.
- Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
- Davenport, John S., German Talers, 1500-1600, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1979.
- Nicol, N. Douglas, Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of German Coins, 1501-Present, 3rd ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [1]Jürg Richter, Auction 69, World Coins and Medals, Bullion Auction and Chinese Banknotes, Part 1, Zürich: Sincona AG, 2021.
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