Salzburg 1646 2 ducats Fr-755
This specimen was lot 2775 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €850 (about US$1,098 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. Doppelte Dukatenklippe 1646. Geprägt mit den Stempeln des Dukaten. GOLD. RR Belegexemplar. Starke Broschier- und Reparaturspuren, sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron, 1619-53, klippe double ducat of 1646, struck with ducat dies. Very rare, crudely repaired, very 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 this format 1624, 1634, 1638-48 and 1651. 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: 7 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 6.72 g.
Catalog reference: KM 93, Fr-755; Probszt 1094; Zöttl 1336 (Type 9).
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- [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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