Poland 1654-MW ducat Fr-90
This specimen was lot 4399 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it sold for $26,400. The catalog description[1] noted, "A Rare 1654-MW Ducat from the Wschowa Mint, POLAND. Ducat, 1654-MW. Wschowa Mint. John Casimir. PCGS Genuine--Rim Repaired, AU Details. The letters on this piece refer to Münstatte Wschowiensis, the name of the mint. A special Ducat produced at the short lived Wschowa mint, and by that virtue a RARE piece. The Wschowa mint was opened to support an upswing in demand in coinage necessitated to pay Polish troops for the impending and ever present conflicts the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth had with Sweden. Very few Ducats from this mint survive today and are desirable in any condition they come in. PCGS notes a rim repair that is most evident at 6 o'clock. This repair does not take away from the attractive nature of the piece. Good luster and detail remain evident. A chance for the collector to find a piece from a seldom seen mint. From the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection." Friedberg lists this type for 1649-62 tho we don't know if every date was struck at Wschowa.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.5 g, 0.986 fine gold.
Catalog reference: Fr-90; KM-102; H-C-5887 (R6); Kop-1864 (R7).
- 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.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [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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