Salzburg 1665 1/2 ducat Fr-776
This specimen was lot 1598 in Goldberg sale 81 (Los Angeles, September 2014), where it sold for $910.62. The catalog description[1] noted, "Austria - Salzburg. ½ Ducat, 1665. Guidobald von Thun and Hohenstein. Seated saint. NGC graded MS-63. Ex "Colonel" E.H.R. Green Collection, with tag." 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 1654-66; half ducats were minted for the rest of the century.
Recorded mintage: unknown but common.
Specification: 1.75 g, 0.986 fine gold, .055 troy oz AGW.
Catalog reference: Fr-776; KM-164.
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- 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]Goldberg, Ira, Larry Goldberg, Aleeza Brown, Yifu Che, Jason Villareal and Stephen Harvey, Goldberg Sale 81: the Pre-Long Beach Auction, Los Angeles: Goldberg Coins and Collectibles, 2014.
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