Breslau (1585-92) ducat Fr-481
This specimen was lot 30526 in Heritage sale 3029 (New York, January 2014), where it sold for $1,997.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "Breslau-Bishopric. Andreas Jerin (1585-95) gold Ducat ND, with titles of Maximilian I, AU Details (Mount Removed) NGC. A well-struck ducat with an excellent portrait of St. John, this piece bears light scratches along the upper edge from the removal of a mount as well as some tooling in the fields. Very scarce. Ex: 'Colonel' E.H.R. Green; Green Estate' Partnership of Eric P Newman/B.G. Johnson." This is the only gold coin listed for this ruler. Tho it is indeed scarce, it is more available than most of the succeeding types of the seventeenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.48 grams, 0.986 fine gold.
Catalog reference: Fr-481.
- [1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Stuart Levine and Bruce Lorich, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3029, featuring Selections from the Eric P. Newman Collection, Part III, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2013.
- 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.
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