Birthday of Count Friedrich Adolf

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1295. Estimate $600.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Lippe-Detmold. Friedrich Adolf. Count, 1697-1718. AR Vierteltaler Klippe. 46th birthday issue. Tobias Bernard, mintmaster. Dated 1713. FRID • ADOLP • COM • ET • N • D • LIPP •, bare-headed, draped, and armored bust right; • B • below truncation of arm; all within grained right border / • HEUT •/• SIND • ES •/SECHS • UND/VIRTZIG • IAHR/DAR • DISER • HERR/GEBOREN • WAHR/GOTT • LASS • IHN • DOP/PELT • SOLCHE ZAHL/IN • SEGEN • LEBEN •/_ ÜBER ALL _/ANNO • 1713 •/D 12 • SEPT •/• • • in thirteen lines across field; all within grained right border. Grote 189a; Peus, Koch 2477; KM 133. In an NGC slab graded AU 50.