Salzburg 1573-SR 2 ducat Fr-636
This specimen was lot 1871 in Sincona sale 38 (Zürich, May 2017), where it sold for 1600 CHF (about US$1,919 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Salzburg, Erzbistum, Johann Jakob Khuen von Belasi, 1560-1586 Doppeldukat 1573. Titel Maximilian II. Vorzüglich. (Germany, archbishopric of Salzburg, Johann Jakob Khuen von Belasi, 1560-1586, double ducat of 1573, struck in the name of Maximilian II. 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 1569-85 and is the first really affordable double ducat from this locale. 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: 7 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 6.95 g.
Catalog reference: Zöttl 573. Fr-636.
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- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
- [1]Jürg Richter, Auction 38, Gold Coins and Medals, Zürich: Sincona AG, 2017.
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