Bohemia 1621 10 ducats Fr-38

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Heritage sale 3096, lot 30132
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This specimen was lot 30132 in Heritage auction 3096 (Dallas, TX, March 2021), where it sold for $45,600. The catalog description[1] noted,

"Austria: Astonishingly Rare Date 10 Ducat from the Dawn of the Kipperzeit. Bohemia - Ferdinand II gold 10 Ducat 1621-(l) AU Details (Mount Removed) NGC, Prague mint. Benedikt Huebmer as mintmaster. The inaugural date for this type produced under Benedikt Huebmer, and a strikingly engaging issue for its mintage during the Kipper-und Wipperzeit, a period of rampant debasement at the start of the Thirty Years' War that began around 1621. During this time, large-sized gold coins such as this were only a dream for states that saw financial despair and hyperinflation. A small and remarkably inconspicuous mount removal on the edge at 12 o'clock has caused little-to-no disturbance to the surrounding areas of the planchet. Even more impressive, however, is the absence of serious weakness or unevenness to blur the finer elements of the design, perhaps the one exception being a small spot of rub atop the imperial orb. Overall, the level of preservation is simply enviable for the grade, with luster still prevalent over both sides. According to our research, only one other representative of the date has surfaced at auction in recent memory, stemming from the Stack Collection, which brought the equivalent of nearly $25,000 in its last public appearance in June 2008. Aside from that example and the present specimen, we are only aware of one other, in the Donebauer Collection (illustrated by a line drawing). There are seemingly none recorded by Miller zu Aichholz, nor is there one present in the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna. Certainly, one of the undisputed keys in this series, perhaps only behind the 1632 12 Ducat of the same design, listed by Friedberg as simply as "unknown." Ex. Heritage Auction #3011 (2003, Lot 12019). From the Paramount Collection."

This type was struck 1621-37 yet remains rare. It was accompanied by a five ducats (Fr-39).

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 35 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 34.60 g.

Catalog reference: KM 319, Fr-38, Horsky-Unl., Julius-Unl., Donebauer-2125 (RR), Dietiker-760.

Source:

  • Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
  • 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.
  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • [1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano and Warren Tucker, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3096, featuring the Paramount Collection of World & Ancient Coins, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2021.

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