Austria 1901 ducat Fr-493
This specimen was lot 70074 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, May 2020), where it sold for $720. The catalog description[1] noted, "AUSTRIA. Ducat, 1901. Vienna Mint. Franz Joseph I. PCGS MS-66 Gold Shield. About as alluring as one will find, this stunning Gem offers tremendous luster and radiating brilliance, and is the finest of the date in the PCGS census." This type was struck 1872-1915 and is common. The SCWC notes that more were restruck after World War One, all dated 1915. No mintmark appears on this type. Gold ducats were struck throughout Franz Josef's long reign and come in many types.
Specification: 3.49 g, 0.986 fine gold, 19.8 mm diameter.
Recorded mintage: 348,621.
Catalog reference: Herinek 5, Veselý 53, Fr-493; KM-2267.
- Herinek, Gerhard, Austria Münzkatalog: Munzen ab 1745 und Banknoten ab 1759, 49. Auflage, Vienna: Christine Steyrer Verlag, 2022.
- Veselý, Roman, Mince a medaile, 19. století, František II ab Karel I, Prague: Aurea Numismatika, 2020.
- 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.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The May 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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