Salzburg 1656 ducat Fr-774

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Künker sale 384, lot 2860

This specimen was lot 2860 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €1,300 (about US$1,680 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Guidobald von Thun und Hohenstein, 1654-1668. Dukat 1656. GOLD. R Min. gewellt, sehr schön-vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 20, München 1985, Nr. 225. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Guidobald of Thun and Hohenstein, 1654-68, ducat of 1656. Rare, slightly wavy, very fine to extremely fine.)"

Guidobald wurde am 16. Dezember 1616 in Castelfondo (Südtirol) geboren. Im Alter von 37 Jahren wurde er am 3. Februar 1654 zum Erzbischof von Salzburg gewählt. Zunächst mußte Guidobald die finanziellen und wirtschaftlichen Folgen des Dreißigjährigen Krieges überwinden. Salzburg hatte während des Großen Krieges enorme Kontributionen aufbringen müssen, und die Befreiung davon führte zu einer neuen Blütezeit in Kunst und Bauwesen. Guidobald hatte diplomatische Ambitionen und wurde 1662 von Leopold I. zum Kaiserlichen Prinzipalkommissar auf den Ewigen Reichstag zu Regensburg berufen. Er hielt sich von da an meist in Regensburg auf. Im Jahr 1666 wurde er auch zum Bischof von Regensburg gewählt und ein Jahr später erhielt er die Kardinalswürde. Für das Erzbistum Salzburg war die Karriere seines Erzbischofs eher nachteilig, da erhebliche Geldsummen nach Regensburg transferiert werden mußten, um die aufwendige Hofhaltung und Repräsentation Guidobalds zu finanzieren. Am 1. Juni 1668 starb der Erzbischof im Alter von 52 Jahren überraschend an einer Blutvergiftung. (Guidobald was born on December 16, 1616 in Castelfondo (South Tyrol). On February 3, 1654, at the age of 37, he was elected Archbishop of Salzburg. First Guidobald had to overcome the financial and economic consequences of the Thirty Years' War. Salzburg had had to raise enormous contributions during the Great War, and the liberation from this led to a new heyday in art and building. Guidobald had diplomatic ambitions and in 1662 Leopold I appointed him Imperial Principal Commissioner at the Eternal Reichstag in Regensburg. From then on he spent most of his time in Regensburg. In 1666 he was also elected bishop of Regensburg and a year later he received the dignity of cardinal. For the archdiocese of Salzburg, the career of its archbishop was rather disadvantageous, since considerable sums of money had to be transferred to Regensburg in order to finance Guidobald's expensive court suite. On June 1, 1668, the archbishop died unexpectedly at the age of 52 from blood poisoning.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck 1654-68 without interruption. 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 3.49 g.

Catalog reference: KM 165, Fr-774; Probszt 1441; Zöttl 1762 (Type 1).

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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