Reckoner at the Accounting Table

CNG 88, Lot: 1866. Estimate $300. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Nürnberg (Stadt). CU Rechenpfennig (Reckoning Token) (27mm, 3.44 g, 1h). Uncertain workshop, possibly of Damian Krauwinckel. Dated 1553. Rector seated facing at accounting table, head right; on table, five counters between retoragrade B and B; moneybag below, nineteen counters around / Alphabet in five lines (omitting J and U); date below. Stalzer 57; M. B. Mitchiner, et al., “Nuremberg and its Jetons, c. 1475-1888: Chemical Compositions of the Alloys” in NC 147 (1987), 74. VF, brown surfaces. Rare and historically interesting.