Fribourg (15)31 dicken
This specimen was lot 4166 in SINCONA Auction 98 (Zürich, May 2025), where it sold for 5,250 CHF (about US$7,615 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SCHWEIZ Freiburg/Fribourg, Stadt und Kanton, Dicken 1531, Freiburg. Mindere Jahreszahl 31 zwischen zwei Punkten. Sehr selten. Sehr schön. Exemplar der Slg. Kunzmann, Auktion SINCONA 53, Zürich, Oktober 2018, Los 6223. (Switzerland, canton of Fribourg, dicken of 1531, Fribourg mint, with abbreviated date between dots. Very rare, Very Fine.)"
This type was struck 1530-31, 1540, 1548, 1556, 1560 and 1571. The dicken was twenty-four kreuzer or one-third thaler in the sixteenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 8.9 g, silver, 20 mm diameter, this specimen 9.41 g.
Catalog reference: MCV 31d, HMZ 2-257c.
- Richter, Jürg, and Ruedi Kunzmann, Neuer HMZ-Katalog, Band 2: Die Münzen der Schweiz und Liechtensteins 15//16. Jahrhundert bis Gegenwart, Regenstauf, Germany: H. Gietl Verlag GmbH, 2006.
- [1]Richter, Jurg, SINCONA Auction 98: The Konrad Bürki Collection - Part 3 (Swiss Cantonal Coins), Zürich: SINCONA AG, 2025.
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