Prussia 1853-A friedrichs d'or Fr-2435
This specimen was lot 3641 in Künker sale 264 (Osnabrück, June 2015), where it sold for €2,400 (about US$3,100 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"PREUSSEN, KÖNIGREICH Friedrich Wilhelm IV. 1840-1861. Friedrichs d'or 1853, A. GOLD. Attraktives Exemplar, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (Germany, kingdom of Prussia, Frederick William IV, 1840-61, frederick d'or of 1853. Attractive very fine to extremely fine.)"
The last friedrichs d'or was struck in 1855 (KM 469, shown here) and was replaced by the gold half krone (KM 493, struck 1861-69), which contained about 70/83 of the gold in the previous denomination. The gold krone was in turn superseded by the gold twenty mark of the German Empire. This scarce issue is listed for 1853-55.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.68 g, 0.903 fine gold, this specimen 6.65 g.
Catalog reference: Divo/S. 168; Fr-2435; Schl. 628; Olding 358, KM 469.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- 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.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 264, Gold coins | Russian Coins and Medals | German Coins after 1871, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2015
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