Salzburg (1587) 2 ducats Fr-659

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Künker sale 384, lot 2674

This specimen was lot 2674 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €11,000 (about US$14,214 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, 1587-1612. Doppelte Dukatenklippe o. J. Geschenkstück. Sechsfeldiges Stifts- und Familienwappen mit Mittelschild, darüber Kardinalshut mit herabhängenden Quasten//Die beiden Stiftsheiligen St. Rudbertus und St. Virgilius sitzen nebeneinander mit Mitra, Salzgefäß und Krummstab, die Köpfe einander zugewandt, davor Dommodell. In US-Plastikholder der NGC mit der Bewertung MS 62 (6495148-003). GOLD. R Attraktives Exemplar, min. gewellt, vorzüglich +. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, 1587-1612, undated klippe double ducat, presentation strike. Obverse: sixfold arms of the state and family with escutcheon under a cardinal's hat with tassels; reverse: SS. Rupert and Virgil seated facing each other with miter, saltcellar and crozier, a model of the cathedral between them. Rare, attractive example, slightly wavy, graded NGC MS-62, choice extremely fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This series of silver and gold was struck to commemorate the coronation of the new archbishop. Salzburg was blessed with a number of productive silver mines and the prince-archbishop was a prolific issuer of coins, particularly thalers. The archbishopric was secularized in 1803 and passed to Austria in 1814.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 7 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 6,96 g.

Catalog reference: Fr-659; Probszt 739; Zöttl 866 (Type 8).

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.
  • Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
  • [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 384: Münzen, Medaillen und Marken von Salzburg - Die Sammlung Professor Dr. Franz Schedel, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2023.

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