Bavaria 1642 ducat Fr-195
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This specimen was lot 3934 in Künker sale 406 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €1,300 (about US$1,706 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BAYERN, HERZOGTUM, SEIT 1623 KURFÜRSTENTUM, Maximilian I. 1598-1651. Dukat 1642, München. GOLD. Leicht gewellt, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (Germany, electorate of Bavaria, Maximilian I, 1598-1651, ducat of 1642, Munich mint. Slightly wavy, very fine to extremely fine.)"
This type was struck 1642-47 and tho not cheap, is more available than other Bavarian ducats of the seventeenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.49 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3.45 g.
Catalog reference: KM 274 (formerly KM 63), Fr-195; Hahn 120.
- 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.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [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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