Salzburg 1594 10 ducats Fr-672

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Künker sale 384, lot 2667

This specimen was lot 2667 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €24,000 (about US$31,013 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, 1587-1612. 10 Dukaten 1594. Turmprägung. Geschenkmünze an die Truppen. Erhabenes Gepräge. WOLF : TEODORIC : ARCHIEP : SALISB : SED : AP : LEG : Sechsfeldiges Stifts- und Familienwappen mit Mittelschild, darüber Kardinalshut, zu den Seiten sitzen die beiden Stiftsheiligen St. Rudbertus mit Mitra, Salzgefäß und Krummstab und St. Virgilius mit Mitra, Krummstab und Dommodell, umher Laubkranz// · IN · DOMINO · SPERANS · NON · INFIRMABOR · 1594 Turm in Wellen, umher die durch Köpfe personifizierten vier Winde, oben aus Wolken fallender Hagel, umher Laubkranz. GOLD. Von großer Seltenheit. Henkelspur, leicht berieben, sonst vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion O. Helbing Nachf. 60, München 1930, Nr. 853 (850,- Mark) und der Slg. Salzburg, Auktion Spink & Son 12, Zürich 1984, Nr. 69. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, 1587-1612, ten ducats of 1594, tower coinage struck for the troops. Obverse: sixfold state and family arms with escutcheon, cardinal's hat above, supported by St. Rupert with miter, crozier and saltcellar and St. Virgil with miter, crozier and a model of the cathedral, wreath around; reverse: tower in storm, being blown by the four winds and pelted by hail. Extremely rare, mount mark, lightly tooled, otherwise extremely fine.)

Der Turm in stürmischer See symbolisiert wahrscheinlich den Erzbischof in seiner Stand- und Wehrhaftigkeit gegenüber den Türken, gegen die der Erzbischof ein Truppenkontingent unter der Führung seines Bruders zur Unterstützung des Kaisers Rudolf II. entsandt hatte. Die in diversen Nominalen in Gold und Silber ausgebrachten Turmprägungen dürften als Geschenke an die Soldaten verwendet worden sein. Nach anderer Interpretation ist der Turm ein Symbol für die katholische Kirche, die den Bedrohungen durch die Reformation Stand hält. (The tower in a stormy sea probably symbolizes the archbishop in his steadfastness against the Turks, against whom the archbishop had sent a contingent of troops led by his brother to support Emperor Rudolf II. The tower strikings in various denominations in gold and silver were probably used as gifts to the soldiers. Another interpretation has it that the tower is a symbol of the Catholic Church resisting the Reformation.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This series of 1594 included 25 ducats (Fr-666) down to two ducats (Fr-689), some in klippe format, and a long series of silver coins from six thaler down to half thaler. All were intended to pay troops raised for an expedition against the Turks and all are rare. 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: 35 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 34,71 g.

Catalog reference: Fr-672; Probszt 713; Zöttl 823 (Type 3).

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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