Watch List notes:

GERMANY. Baden. St. Blasien, Abtei. Romanus, 1672-1695. Gulden 1694 (Copper, 33 mm, 11.64 g, 12 h), ironworks at Gutenburg near Tiengen. ✱DVROS IN FERRVM LAPIDES CONVERTO LIQVESCES (= I transform hard rocks to iron by smelting them) Furnace. Rev. ✱ BERGWERKS ZV GVTENBVRG around ✱1✱ / GVLDEN / ✱1694✱ / ✱. Kirchh. 73, Abb. 78. Müs. 3/1. Slg. Zeitz 795. Rare and unusually well preserved. Some doubling and roughness, otherwise, about extremely fine.


From the collection of Dr. Max Blaschegg (1930-2021, with collector's ticket) and that of Virgil M. Brand (1861-1926), Part 4, Leu 69, 5-6 June 1997, 4463.