Mainz 1795-IA 1/2 kreuzer
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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[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.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.6 g, copper, 22.7 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-403.
- 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.
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