Bavaria 1830 ducat Fr-273

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Künker sale 336, lot 6483

This specimen was lot 6483 in Künker sale 336 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €5,000 (about US$6,543 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"BAYERN, HERZOGTUM, SEIT 1623 KURFÜRSTENTUM, SEIT 1806 KÖNIGREICH, Ludwig I. 1825-1848. Dukat 1830. Inngold. GOLD. RR Etwas berieben, feine Kratzer, fast vorzüglich. Die Rückseitendarstellung dieses Dukaten ist aus dem 18. Jahrhundert übernommen worden. Sie lehnt sich an römische Vorbilder an. (Germany, kingdom of Bavaria, Louis I, 1825-48, ducat of 1830, gold from the Inn river. Rare, some tooling, fine cracks, about extremely fine.)"

The king issued three ducats in 1830 honoring the efforts to retrieve gold from Bavaria's rivers. This one honors gold from the Inn River, Fr-272 honors gold from the Danube River, Fr-274 honors gold from the Isar River and Fr-275 honors gold from the Rhine River. A similar series was issued in 1821 by his predecessor Maxilian IV Joseph. This process was yielding diminishing returns and was abandoned a few decades after these ducats appeared.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 3.50 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3,47 g.

Catalog reference: KM 756, Divo/S. 27; Fr-273; Schl. 86.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • 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.
  • [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 336: Gold coins from all over the World|German Coins after 1871. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.

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