Salzburg 1624 4 ducats Fr-744

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Künker sale 384, lot 2773

This specimen was lot 2773 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €8,500 (about US$10,984 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. 4 Dukaten 1624. Geschenkstück. Hüftbild der gekrönten Madonna mit Zepter in der Rechten und dem Kind auf dem linken Arm v. v. darunter Familienwappen, darüber Kardinalshut mit herabhängenden Quasten//St. Rudbertus mit Mitra, Salzgefäß und Krummstab steht v. v. darunter zweifeldiges Stiftswappen, umher Laubkranz. GOLD. RR Etwas berieben, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron, 1619-53, four ducats of 1624, presentation strike. Obverse: half-length bust of the crowned Madonna with scepter in the right arm and the Christ Child in the left, family arms below, cardinal's hat above. Reverse: St. Rudbert with miter, saltcellar and crozier, arms below, leafy wreath around. Very rare, hairlined, very fine to extremely fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck in round (KM 95) format 1624-25, 1629 and 1638, and klippe (KM 96) format 1624 only. 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: 14 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 13,92 g.

Catalog reference: KM 95, Fr-744; Probszt unlisted; Zöttl unlisted (see 1284, Neuer Typus, Type 2).

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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