Lubeck 1797-HDF ducat Fr-1500
This specimen was lot 1145 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it sold for $6,600. The catalog description[1] noted, GERMANY. Lubeck. Ducat, 1797-HDF. PCGS MS-62 Prooflike. Strong reflectivity in the fields imparts blinding radiance on this late 18th century Ducat issue. Considering the overall appearance, it would be near impossible to find another example as noteworthy as this." The city of Lubeck, on the Baltic Sea, struck ducats throughout the eighteenth century; the last issue was in 1801. Her independence was snuffed out by Napoleon, to be restored in 1813 by the Congress of Vienna. However, coinage did not resume until 1901, when five, ten and twenty mark were struck under the Wilhelmine empire.
Recorded mintage: 1,490.
Specification: 3.50 g, 0.986 fine gold.
Catalog reference: Fr-1500; KM-198.
- 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.
- [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.
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