Hey Krause! Whats Burgau Got To Do With It! A Rant

Forgive this rant but I really have found it really tiresome how there is one, seemingly to me, error being perpetuated by Krause and promulgated by the TPGs.


By way of lead in another rhetorical question: How do we attribute coins, by mint, by governing state or by province? The answer of course is first by state( eg United states of America) then by the mint( usually named after the city the mint is located in. No one would dare call a Denver mint issue a Colorado springs coin. Yet Krause does the equivalent thing in regards to the coins produced by the Guenzburg mint. Guenzburg is a town that was located in the same named province( which is located in and a part of Swabia now part of Bavaria). Up until the mid 17th century the province of Guenzburg was actually governed by Burgau. however from the mid 17th century the town of Guenzburg became the administrative center. Almost 100 years later in 1764 the Guenzburg mint was established. It was formally called the Guenzburg mint. Now the arms of Guenzburg actually include the arms of Burgau and it is those arms that are seen on Guenzburg coins. However in German speaking Europe, IMHO correctly, every one refers to the coins from the Guenzburg mint as Guenzburg.


I actually thought that perhaps Krause.... when they purchased the rights to Davenports works might have continued an error Davenport had made but checking Davenport I find the coins from Guenzburg are correctly listed under Austria and attributed to the Guenzburg mint. Krause appears to have created and perpetuated a fiction that is then distributed and reinforced by the TPGs.
This coin in the following listing is a conventions thaler from Guenzburg it was not struck in Burgau , which to my knowledge never had a mint during the early modern period:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Burgau-1766...em257b355733