Czechoslovakia 1932 dukat

from the Stack's Bowers 2022 NYINC sale, lot 1058

This specimen was lot 1058 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it sold for $3,240. The catalog description^[1] noted, "CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Dukat, 1932. Kremnica Mint. PCGS MS-63. A brightly lustrous coin with light yellow golden color and a few light bagmarks." During the brief existence of the first republic of Czechoslovakia (1918-39), the Kremnica mint managed to produce gold one dukat, two dukaty and five and ten dukatu issues 1923-38. The obverse portrait is of "good" king Wenceslas, he of the well-known Christmas carol.

Recorded mintage: 26,617.

Specification: 3.49 g, 0.986 fine gold, 0.109 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: Fr-2; KM-8.

Source:

• 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, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 NYINC Sale: World and Ancient Coins, featuring the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection and the Pat Johnson Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

Link to:

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