Salzburg 1655 6 ducats Fr-770

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Ponterio sale 182, lot 226
image courtesy Stacks Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 226 in Ponterio sale 182 (New York, January 2014), where it sold for $23,500. The catalog description[1] noted, "AUSTRIA. Salzburg. 6 Ducat, 1655. PCGS AU-58 Secure Holder. Exceptional 1655 6 Ducat Guidobald von Thun und Hohenstein (1654-68)." The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. 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.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 21 g, 0.986 fine gold, .665 troy oz AGW.

Catalog reference: Fr-770; KM-178.

Source:

  • 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.
  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
  • [1]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio sale 182: The January 2014 NYINC Auction: World Coins, Irvine, CA: Stacks Bowers LLC.

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