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2 Gulden Siege coinage; Klippe

Features

Issuer City of Frankenthal (German States)
Type Emergency coinage › Siege coins
Conflict Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
Year 1623
Value 2 Gulden
Currency Gulden
Composition Silver
Weight 14.14 g
Size 25 mm
Shape Square (irregular)
Technique Klippe
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
153778
References KM# 6.2
Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).
, Maillet# 5
Prosper Mailliet; 1868. Atlas de monnaies obsidionales et de nécessité. Imprimeur Gobbaerts, Brussels, Belgium.
, Korchnak# 221a
Lawrence C. Korchnak; 2021. Siege Coins of the World 1453-1902. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.

Obverse

Tetrahedron separating the date.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
GOTT • IST • VNSER • ECKSTEIN.
1623
F

Reverse

Blank.

Mint

Frankenthal (Pfalz), Germany

Comments

Besieged by the Catholic League under General Tilly.
Ehrend 7; Brause-Mansfeld I, pl. 10, 5
There is a Replica, produced 1972, see Reference

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
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