Collector’s Piece by Becker

CNG 108, Lot: 1092. Estimate $300. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THIRTY YEARS’ WAR (Dreißigjähriger Krieg), Germany. Frankenthal. Besieged by the Catholic League under General Tilly, Summer 1622-29 March 1623. AR 2 Gulden Klippe (25x25mm, 7.95 g). Dies by Carl Wilhelm Becker (1772-1830). Dated 1623. FRANCKENTHALER NOTH M 16 23, tetrahedron; (star) F (star) below / Blank. Hill 345; cf. Ehrend 7b; Mailliet –; cf. Brause-Mansfeld I, pl. 10, 7; Lasser –. In NGC encapsulation, 3748111-005, graded XF 45.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.7040 (Numismatica Genevensis SA VII, 27 November 2012), lot 755.