Saxe-Jena 1691 groschen

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75100

This specimen was lot 75100 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $216. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Saxe-Jena. Grosch, 1691. Johann Wilhelm. PCGS MS-63. Posthumous issue, struck to commemorate the death of the Duke." Johann Wilhelm succeeded to the title in 1678, at the age of three, and died in 1690, aged fifteen. He never governed personally, and his death ended the Saxe-Jena line after only 18 years. The state reverted to Saxe-Weimar.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM-36.

Source:

• 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, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

Link to:

• 1673-ABC 5 ducats
• Saxe-Neu-Weimar 1684-ICS 6 pfennig
• Coins and currency dated 1691