Austria 1755-WI ducat Fr-425

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Stack's Bowers November 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 76150
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This specimen was lot 76150 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, November 2025), where it sold for $780. The catalog description[1] noted, "AUSTRIA. Ducat, 1755. Vienna Mint. Franz I. PCGS Genuine--Ex Jewelry, EF Details. A difficult type that remains quite alluring despite evidence of past jewelry use. From the G. L. Hermann Collection." This type was struck 1745-65 from Vienna (WI, shown here), Hall (HA), Nagybanya (NB), Karlsburg (CA), Graz (GR) and Prague (PR) but is not common. On the death of Charles VI in 1740, the redoubtable Maria Theresia was crowned archduchess of Austria and queen of Hungary but, being a woman, could not be given the imperial crown. Therefore, after much debate and a war fomented by Frederick the Great of Prussia, her husband Francis of Lorraine was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1745.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 3.49 g, 0.986 fine gold, 21 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Fr-425; KM-1725.2.

Source:

  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • 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.
  • Herinek, Gerhard, Austria Münzkatalog: Munzen ab 1745 und Banknoten ab 1759, 49. Auflage, Vienna: Christine Steyrer Verlag, 2022.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, November 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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