Prussia 1754-C 1/4 stuber
This specimen was lot 3718 in Künker sale 353 (Osnabruck, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €45 (about US$63 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BRANDENBURG-PREUSSEN, PREUSSEN, KÖNIGREICH, Friedrich II. der Große, 1740-1786. Ku.-1/4 Stüber 1754, C, Cleve. Prägung für die westlichen Landesteile. Mit Kleeblatt zwischen 2 Weinblättern im Abschnitt der Vorderseite. Sehr schön. Erworben am 2.11.1982. (Germany, kingdom of Prussia, Frederick II the Great, 1740-86, copper quarter stuiver of 1754, Cleve mint, struck for the western provinces, with a clover leaf between grape leaves on the obverse. Very fine.)"
The stuber, or stuiver, is a denomination familiar to Dutch collectors but not so often seen in German coins. Cleve, in the far west of Germany, near the Dutch border, struck this type 1753-55 along with the Aurich mint in East Friesland. The SCWC notes that one thaler was thirty or 54 stuber, depending on which thaler one used.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper, this specimen 3,20 g.
Catalog reference: KM 55 (listed under Cleve), Olding 285 b; Kluge 285.2.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Künker Auktion 353: Die Sammlung Axel Tesmer, Teil 2: Pragungen der Konige von Preussen von der Kroning 1701 bis zum Ende der Monarchie. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2021.
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- 1753-D quarter stuber
- 1753-E 18 groscher
- 1753-F 1/48 thaler
- 1753-G 1/48 thaler
- 1753-A 1/24 thaler, monogram divides the date
- 1753-G 1/24 thaler
- 1753-A 1/12 thaler
- 1753-B 1/12 thaler
- 1754-F pfennig
- 1754-F copper 3 pfennig
- 1754-B 2 groschel
- 1754-D mariengroschen
- 1754-E schilling
- 1754-C 4 kreuzer
- 1754-E 3 groscher
- 1754-B 18 kreuzer
- 1754-E 6 groscher
- 1754-St E 6 groscher
- 1754-A 8 gute groschen
- 1754-D 8 gute groschen
- 1754-E 8 gute groschen
- 1754-B 1/12 thaler
- 1754-E 1/12 thaler
- 1754-B 1/6 thaler
- 1754-E 1/6 thaler
- 1754-E 18 groscher, armored bust
- 1754-E 18 groscher, crowned bust
- 1754-A ⅓ thaler
- 1754-A ducat
- 1755-A copper pfennig
- 1755-A copper 3 pfennig
- 1755-A 8 gute groschen
- 1755-D 8 gute groschen
- 1755-F 8 gute groschen
- 1755-B 18 groscher
- 1755-C 1/24 thaler
- 1755-B 1/12 thaler
- Coins and currency dated 1754