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1/4 Stüber of Clemens August, 1742

Details

Period
Austrian Netherlands (1713–1794)
Material
Copper
Condition
Illegible
Denomination
1/4 Stüber
Currency
Thaler, 1504-1798
Worth
1/288 Thaler
Year
1742
Issuer
Archbishopric of Cologne
Ruler
Clemens August
Reference
Numista
Location
Blauberg (Herselt)

What could it buy?

In Antwerp in 1780 a labourer usually earned 8 to 10 stuivers a day, or 32 to 40 liards. A publication from that year said a family needed 12 stuivers a day.

For this period in general, not for this coin in particular.

The story

1/4 Stüber from 1742, issued in the Archbishopric of Cologne under Clemens August. So worn that the inscriptions are illegible.

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