Seige and Emergency Coins
Lot 3719 SESSION 12 (11.30am Thursday) Seige and Emergency Coins
Estimate $300
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SOLD $280
GERMANY, Minden, (besieged by George, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg), Klippe silver eight groschen, 1634, obv. MINDA/OBSESSA 1634, rev. value with additional countermark of crossed keys, (Mailliet LXXXV,1; KM.11). Very fine and scarce.
Ex Spink Coin Auctions, 15th May 1981 (lot 417, illustrated). The bishopric of Minden was besieged during the Thirty Years' War by Georg, Duke of Brunswick-LÂÂneburg, who was in league with the invading forces of Sweden as they swept in from the north. After the war, Minden was stripped of its ecclesiastical role and given to Brandenburg in the Peace of Westphalia.
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