Salzburg 1641 2 ducat Fr-755
This specimen was lot 1873 in Sincona sale 38 (Zürich, May 2017), where it sold for 1,500 CHF (about US$1,799 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Salzburg, Erzbistum, Paris Graf Lodron, 1619-1653 Doppeldukatenklippe 1641. Sehr selten. Fast sehr schön. Fassungs- und Henkelspuren. (Germany, archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris, count of Lodron, 1619-53, klippe double ducat of 1641. Very rare. About very fine. Trace of mounting.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type is listed for 1628-48 and is rare. 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. Archbishop Paris issued 37 different gold coins ranging from a quarter ducat to twenty ducats. The archbishopric was secularized in 1803 and passed to Austria in 1814.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 7 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 6.76 g.
Catalog reference: Probzst -. Zöttl 1331, Fr-755, KM 122.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- 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 Zottl, 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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