Fugger-Babenhausen 1677 15 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 75039 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $456. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Fugger-Babenhausen. 15 Kreuzer (1/4 Gulden), 1677. Sigmund Joseph and Johann Rudolf. PCGS AU-55. A charming and unusual issue that was struck using roller dies, which gives it its somewhat cupped appearance. From the Richard Margolis Collection." The Fuggers were originally a banking family, ennobled for their services to the Hapsburgs. At the time of their mediatization by Napoleon in 1806, the estate was divided into Prince of Fugger-Babenhausen, the Count of Fugger-Glött, Count of Fugger-Kirchberg-Weissenhorn, Count of Fugger-Kirchheim and Count of Fugger-Nordendorf. The territory was partitioned between Wurttemberg and Bavaria. This obscure type is listed for 1676-77. At the time 15 kreuzer was one-quarter gulden or one-sixth thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM-31.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- 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, October 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the S.P. Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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