Aachen 1646 ducat Fr-9
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This specimen was lot 5177 in Künker sale 354 (Osnabrück, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €2,000 (about US$2,784 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"AACHEN, STADT, Dukat 1646, mit Titel Ferdinands III. GOLD. R Leicht gewellt, sehr schön. Exemplar der Auktion Münzzentrum Rheinland 156, Köln 2010, Nr. 3041. (Germany, city of Aachen, ducat of 1646, struck in the name of Ferdinand III. Rare, lightly wavy, very fine.)"
The city of Aachen on the border between Germany and the Netherlands, issued little gold during the seventeenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown but rare.
Specification: 3.5 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3,36 g.
Catalog reference: KM 28, Fr-9; Menadier 207 b var.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Künker Auktion 354: Munzen und Medaillen aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit u. a. Braunschweig-Luneburg. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2021.
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