Augsburg 1677 ducat Fr-68
This specimen was lot 1725 in Künker sale 352 (Osnabrück, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €8,500 (about US$11,830 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"AUGSBURG, STADT, Dukat 1677, mit Titel Leopolds I. GOLD. Von großer Seltenheit. Min. gewellt, vorzüglich, Erworben 1953 bei der Firma Julius Jenke, München. (Germany, city of Augsburg, ducat of 1677, struck in the name of Leopold I. Very rare, slightly wavy, extremely fine. Bought from Julius Jenke in 1953.)"
This type was struck 1677 and 1681-92. The previous type (KM 87), struck 1658-64, 1667-77, had different arms on the obverse. By this period, Augsburg was in full decline, south Germany being wrecked by the Thirty Years War.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.49 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3,47 g.
Catalog reference: KM 92, Forster 361; Fr-68.
- 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.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Künker Auktion 352: Die Sammlung Hermann Schwarz: Faszination des gepragten Goldes. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2021.
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