Salzburg 1651 ducat Fr-756
This specimen was lot 2787 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €550 (about US$711 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. Dukat 1651. GOLD. Bearbeitungsspuren am Rand, Schürfspur im Feld der Rückseite, leicht gewellt, sehr schön. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 29, München 1989, Nr. 725. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron, 1619-53, ducat of 1651. Tooling on the edge and in the field of the reverse, lightly wavy, 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 klippe (KM 109) format in 1627-28 and 1631-51 and round format (shown here) 1620-53. 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 3.43 g.
Catalog reference: KM 65, Fr-756; Probszt 1143; Zöttl 1366 (Type 4).
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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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