Salzburg 1513 ducat Fr-579

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Sincona sale 33, lot 3167

This specimen was lot 3167 in Sincona sale 33 (Zürich, October 2016), where it sold for 2,200 CHF (about US$2,612 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Salzburg, Erzbistum, Leonhard von Keutschach, 1495-1519 Dukat 1513. Sehr schön-fast vorzüglich. (Germany, archbishopric of Salzburg, Leonhard von Keutschach, 1495-1519, ducat of 1513. Very fine-almost extremely fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type is listed for 1500-19, i.e., most of the archbishop's entire reign. 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: 3.5 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3.51 g.

Catalog reference: Zöttl 26. Probszt 69. Fr-579.

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]Jürg Richter, Numismatic Coins & Medals, Auction 33, Zürich: Sincona AG, 2016.

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