Fribourg 1560 dicken
This specimen was lot 4168 in SINCONA Auction 98 (Zürich, May 2025), where it sold for 4,500 CHF (about US$6,527 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SCHWEIZ Freiburg/Fribourg, Stadt und Kanton, Dicken 1560, Freiburg. Burg zwischen zwei kleinen Ringeln im Feld, darüber Adler nach links. Rv. Heiliger Nikolaus halbrechts, ein kleiner Ringel links. Ausgeschriebene Jahreszahl am Ende der Umschrift. Sehr selten. Schön-sehr schön. (Switzerland, canton of Fribourg, dicken of 1560, Fribourg mint. Obverse: tower between two rings in the field under an eagle to left; reverse: St. Nicholas right with a small ring to the left with complete date at the end of the legend. Very rare, Fine-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, 30 mm diameter, this specimen 9.51 g.
Catalog reference: MCV 32b, HMZ 2-257g.
- 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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