Salzburg 1662 1/4 ducat Fr-777
This specimen was lot 26441 in Heritage sale 3022 (New York, January 2013), where it sold for $282. The catalog description[2] noted, "Salzburg. Guidobald gold 1/4 Ducat 1662, AU, minimal mount trace at 12:00. Much original luster." 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. This type is listed for 1654-68; quarter ducats were minted for the rest of the century.
Recorded mintage: unknown but common.
Specification: 0.87 g, 0.986 fine gold, .027 troy oz AGW.
Catalog reference: Fr-777, KM 163.
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- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
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- [2]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and David Michaels, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3021, featuring the Cecil Webster, Richard P. Ariagno and Elizabeth McPhall Charters Collection, Dallas: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2012.
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