Mainz 1772-S ducat Fr-1681

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Künker sale 404, lot 2487

This specimen was lot 2487 in Künker sale 404 (Osnabrück, March 2024), where it sold for €13,000 (about US$17,057 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"DAS ERZBISTUM MAINZ. ERZBISCHOF EMMERICH JOSEPH VON BREIDBACH-BÜRRESHEIM, 1763-1774. Die Münzstätte Mainz. Dukat 1772, Mainz. Rheingold. Büste r. mit Fürstenmantel, darunter die Signatur S (August Friedrich Stieler, Stempelschneider in Mainz 1765-ca. 1789)//* / AURUM / RHENI / römische Jahreszahl / D • F • (Damian Fritsch, Münzmeister in Mainz 1755-1795). GOLD. Sehr selten, besonders in dieser Erhaltung. Prachtexemplar. Fast Stempelglanz. Exemplar der Auktion Fritz Rudolf Künker 229, Osnabrück 2013, Nr. 5773. Stieler ist der Stempelschneider dieses Rheingold-Dukaten mit der ungewöhnlich monumentalen Rückseiten-Aufschrift. Die Vorderseiten-Umschrift löst sich wie folgt auf: EM(ericus) IOS(ephus) D(ei) G(ratia) A(rchi) EP(iscopus) M(oguntinus) S(acri) R(omani) I(mperii) P(er) G(ermaniam) A(rchi) C(ancellarius) P(rinceps) EL(ector) E(piscopus) W(ormatiensis). Geprägt wurde das Stück von Damian Fritsch. (Germany, archbishopric of Mainz, Emmerich Joseph of Breidbach-Bürresheim, 1763-74, ducat of 1772, Mainz mint, gold from the Rhine. Obverse: mantled bust right, initial below; reverse: "AURUM RHENI", date in Roman numerals and mintmaster's initials. Very scarce, especially in this quality, cabinet example, about uncirculated. Stieler was the engraver of this Rhine gold ducat with the unusually monumental inscription on the reverse. The obverse legend reads in full as: "EM(ericus) IOS(ephus) D(ei) G(ratia) A(rchi) EP(iscopus) M(oguntinus) S(acri) R(omani) I(mperii) P(er) G(ermaniam) A(rchi) C(ancellarius) P(rinceps) EL(ector) E(piscopus) W(ormatiensis).")"

Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim (1707-74) was also bishop of Worms after 1768. He is noted for implementing educational reform in his diocese. A considerable variety of low denomination coins exists for his reign. The thaler, which had been ninety kreuzer in the seventeenth century, was raised to 120 kreuzer in the eighteenth century and renamed from reichsthaler to convention thaler. The gulden remained sixty kreuzer and so became half a thaler from two-thirds. No coinage was struck in Mainz between Emmerich Joseph's death in 1774 and the arrival of French revolutionary armies in 1793.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 3.50 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3,50 g.

Catalog reference: KM 382, Fr-1681; Eckhart Pick, Das Mainzer Medailleursquartett Abb. 7; Schön 64; Slg. Pick I (Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 405) 752; Slg. Walther 623.

Source:

  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • 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]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 404: Coins and Medals of the City of Mainz - The Prof. Dr. Eckhart Pick Collection, Part II, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.

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