Lubeck 1791-HDF ducat Fr-1500
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This specimen was lot 29517 in Heritage sale 3037 (New York, January 2015), where it sold for $2,585. The catalog description[1] noted, "Lubeck. Free City gold Ducat 1791-HDF MS62 NGC. Excellent, with classic, golden patina and fully-rendered design features--quite a feat for a coin of this age. Despite a slight bend in the flan, the fields surprise with much reflectivity. With a mintage of just 1,800 pieces, this is a scarce mint-state example, seldom seen in the marketplace." The city of Lubeck, on the Baltic Sea, struck ducats throughout the eighteenth century; the last issue was in 1801.
Recorded mintage: 1,800.
Specification: 3.49 g, .979 fine gold, .109 troy oz AGW.
Catalog reference: KM 195, Fr-1500.
- 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]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and Scott Cordry, Heritage Signature Auction 3037, featuring the Empire, the Santa Catarina, the Law and the Santa Maria Collections, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2014.
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