Salzburg 1513 4 ducats Fr-577b

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Sincona sale 4, lot 5338

This specimen was lot 5338 in Sincona sale 4 (Zürich, October 2011), where it sold for 35,000 CHF (about US$46,460 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Salzburg, Erzbistum Leonhard von Keutschach, 1495-1519. 4 Dukaten 1513. Brustbild nach rechts. Rv. Mitra über vierteiligem Wappenschild, zu den Seiten die geteilte Jahreszahl. Sehr selten. Vorzüglich. (Archbishopric of Salzburg, Leonhard von Keutschach, 1495-1519, quadruple ducat of 1513. Obverse: bust to right; reverse: bishop's mitre over quartered arms dividing date. Very rare, extremely fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. In the seventeenth century it 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: 14 g, 0.986 fine gold; this specimen is 13,92 g.

Catalog reference: Zöttl 3. Probszt 57. Fr-577b.

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]Numismatic Coins, Medals & Banknotes: Auction 4, Zürich: SINCONA AG, 2011.

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