Salzburg 1587 6 ducats Fr-652

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Künker sale 384, lot 2672

This specimen was lot 2672 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €16,000 (about US$20,675 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, 1587-1612. 6 Dukaten 1587. Geschenkstück. + WOLF : TEOD : D : G : ARCHIE - SALIS : SED : APOS : LEGAT Vierfeldiges Stifts- und Familienwappen mit Mittelschild, darüber Kardinalshut mit herabhängenden Quasten, dahinter Kreuz- und Krummstab gekreuzt//+ S · RVDBERTVS · ET · S · VIRGILIVS · EPI · SALZBURGN : Die beiden Stiftsheiligen St. Rudbertus und St. Virgilius sitzen nebeneinander mit Mitra, Salzgefäß und Krummstab, die Köpfe einander zugewandt, davor Dommodell. GOLD. Von größter Seltenheit. Henkelspur, sehr schön. Exemplar der Auktion Merzbacher 25, München 1913, Nr. 1037; der Auktion Münzen und Medaillen AG 15, Basel 1955, Nr. 440 (1850,- Fr.) und der Slg. Salzburg, Auktion Spink & Son 12, Zürich 1984, Nr. 58. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, 1587-1612, six ducats of 1587, presentation strike. Obverse: quartered arms of the state and family under a cardinal's hat with tassels, cross and crozier behind; reverse: SS. Rupert and Virgil seated facing each other with miter, saltcellar and croizer, a model of the cathedral between them. Extremely rare, mount mark, very fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This six ducats was one of a series of commemorative gold coins struck at the beginning of Wolf's reign, ranging from two ducats to twenty ducats. Some were struck in klippe format and others were undated. 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: 21 g 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 20,70 g.

Catalog reference: Fr-652 ("Rare"); Probszt 744; Zöttl 849 (Type 1).

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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