Salzburg 1613 ducat Fr-720

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Künker sale 384, lot 2739

This specimen was lot 2739 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €4,400 (about US$5,686 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Markus Sittikus von Hohenems, 1612-1619. Dukat 1613. GOLD. RR Min. gewellt, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Marcus Sitticus of Hohenems, 1612-19, ducat of 1613. Very rare, slightly wavy, very fine to extremely fine.)"

Markus Sittikus stammte aus einer Vorarlberger Familie und war der Vetter des Erzbischofs Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau. Nach dessen Gefangennahme durch bayerische Truppen und Resignation wählte das Domkapitel den 37jährigen Markus Sittikus zum Nachfolger. Er galt als skrupelloser und boshafter Charakter und verhielt sich besonders bösartig gegenüber seinem gefangengehaltenen Cousin, da er dessen Rückkehr auf den Salzburger Bischofstuhl fürchtete. Als großer Freund der italienischen Baukunst errichtete er das Schloß Hellbrunn und begann den Neubau des Salzburger Domes. Außerdem gründete er das Salzburger Gymnasium, aus dem später die Universität hervorgehen sollte. Der Erzbischof konnte auch die Verwicklung des Erzbistums in den ausbrechenden Dreißigjährigen Krieg vermeiden. Am 9. Oktober 1619 starb Markus Sittikus im Alter von 45 Jahren und hatte seinen verhaßten Vetter nur um zwei Jahre überlebt. (Markus Sittikus came from a Vorarlberg family and was the cousin of Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau. After Wolf's capture by Bavarian troops and deposition, the cathedral chapter elected 37-year-old Mark Sittich as his successor. He was considered an unscrupulous and malicious character and behaved particularly heinously towards his imprisoned cousin, as he feared his return to the Salzburg bishopric. As a great friend of Italian architecture, he built the Hellbrunn Palace and began rebuilding the Salzburg Cathedral. He also founded the Salzburg Gymnasium, which later became the university. The archbishop was also able to avoid the involvement of the archdiocese in the Thirty Years' War that broke out. Mark Sittich died on October 9, 1619 at the age of 45, having survived his hated cousin by only two years.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck 1612-18 along with a klippe format (KM 29). In the seventeenth century, 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: 3.5 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3.44 g.

Catalog reference: KM 22, Fr-720; Probszt 939; Zöttl 1124 (Type 1).

Source:

  • 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.
  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
  • 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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