Lubeck 1801-HDF ducat Fr-1500
This specimen was lot 6561 in Künker sale 336 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €950 (about US$1,243 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"LÜBECK, STADT, Dukat 1801, mit Titel von Franz II. und dem Abzeichen des Bürgermeisters Hermann Georg Bünekau. GOLD. Min. gewellt, vorzüglich. (Germany, city of Lubeck, ducat of 1801, in the name of Francis II and the badge of mayor Herman George Bunekau. Slightly bent, extremely fine.)"
The city of Lubeck, on the Baltic Sea, struck ducats throughout the eighteenth century; this is the last issue. 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: unknown but scarce.
Specification: 3.50 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3,47 g.
Catalog reference: KM 205, Behrens 647; Fr-1500; Divo/S. 137; Schl. 492.
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- 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, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 336: Gold coins from all over the World|German Coins after 1871. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
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