Danzig 1683-DL ducat Fr-36
This specimen was lot 41182 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2026), where it sold for $28,800. The catalog description[1] noted, "Stunning Choice Mint State Ducat of Jan III Sobieski, POLAND. Danzig. Ducat, 1683-DL. Danzig Mint. John III Sobieski. PCGS MS-63. A simply lovely and magnetically alluring Polish Ducat, delivering a refined elegance in the elegant details being boldly impressed on the surfaces. The fields are bright and luminous, with a reflectivity reminiscent of a piece of polished obsidian. About as attractive as Polish gold from this period comes, we expect no shortage of active bidders for this exemplar. From the Collection of Kazmier Wysocki, former mayor of Hackensack, New Jersey." This subtype was struck for Jan III Sobieski in 1683 and 1688. Jan III Sobieski (r. 1674-96) temporarily reversed the decline in the power of the Polish crown and defeated the Turks at the siege of Vienna in 1683.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.49 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3.49 g.
Catalog reference: Fr-36; KM-75.1; H-Cz-2479 (R1); Kop-7692; Kam-1267; Gum-2045.
- 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.
- Adolf Resch, Siebenburgische Münzen und Medaillen von 1538 bis Gegenwart. Hermannstadt, 1901 (reprinted in Montreal, 1965).
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, January 2026 NYINC Showcase Auction, Ancient and World Coins, featuring the Kazmier Wysocki Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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