Austria 1937 25 schilling
This specimen was lot 3915 in Künker sale 406 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €1,000 (about US$1,312 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH, 1. Republik, 1918-1938. 25 Schilling 1937, Wien. St. Leopold. 5,29 g Feingold. GOLD. Min. Randfehler, vorzüglich. (Austria, first republic, 1918-38, twenty-five schilling of 1937, Vienna mint. Minor edge nicks, extremley fine.)"
The SCWC, which lists this type for 1935-38, does not price this coin except in uncirculated, suggesting that it spent its life in bank vaults before entering the collector market. It may have been sold in sets with the "Mariazell" 100 schilling.
Recorded mintage: 7,660.
Specification: 5.88 g, 0.900 fine gold, 0.170 troy oz AGW.
Catalog reference: KM 2856, Fr-524; J. 446; Schl. 701.
- 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, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 406: Gold Coins | Coins and Medals from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. Löwenstein-Wertheim | German Coins after 1871, a. o. Patterns from the Coenen Collection, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.
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