Cologne 1727-HK VL ducat Fr-775
This specimen was lot 6546 in Künker sale 336 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €3,200 (about US$4,188 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"KÖLN, STADT, Dukat 1727, mit Titel Karls VI. GOLD. Vorzüglich. (Germany, city of Cologne, ducat of 1727, struck in the name of Charles VI, extremely fine.)"
This type of 1727 and 1731 was struck by the city, not the archbishop. The archbishopric and the city were mediatized in 1801 and handed to the French Republic and later Napoleon's empire. At the Congress of Vienna, the city became part of the Prussian Rhineland.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.5 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3,44 g.
Catalog reference: KM 423.2, Fr-775; Noss 611 a.
- 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.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [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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