Augsburg 1730 ducat Fr-88

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from Künker sale 352, lot 1729

This specimen was lot 1729 in Künker sale 352 (Osnabrück, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €3,400 (about US$4,732 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"AUGSBURG, STADT, Dukat 1730, auf die 200-Jahrfeier der Übergabe der Augsburger Konfession. GOLD. R Winz. Kratzer, vorzüglich. (Germany, city of Augsburg, ducat of 1730, on the bicentennial of the Augsburg Confession. Rare, minor scratches, extremely fine.)"

This one year type is rather scarce. The date is in a chronogram on the reverse.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 3.49 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3,39 g.

Catalog reference: KM 139, Forster 106; Fr-88; Slg. Whiting 363; Slg. Opitz 2793.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • 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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