Austria 1664 15 kreuzer KM-1219
This specimen was lot 4686 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €140 (about US$183 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"RÖMISCH-DEUTSCHES REICH. Erzherzog Sigismund Franz, 1662-1665. 15 Kreuzer 1664, Hall. Vorzüglich. (Holy Roman Empire, archduke Sigismund Francis, 1662-65, fifteen kreuzer of 1664, Hall mint. Extremely fine.)"
This fifteen kreuzer is known only with the date 1664 but the prodigious reported mintage can't all have been made in one year. The archduke was last Hapsburg to exercise the mint right without being emperor himself. This denomination was also struck at Vienna, St. Veit, Graz and Olmutz and was worth 5/24 of a thaler or 5/16 of a gulden.
Recorded mintage: 2,249,000.
Specification: silver, this specimen 6.25 g.
Catalog reference: KM 1219, M./T. 529.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Heinz Moser and Heinz Tursky, Die Munzstatte Hall in Tirol, 2 vols. Innsbruck: Verlag Dr Rudolf Erhad, 1981.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
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