Salzburg 1668 10 ducat Fr-797
This specimen was lot 3472 in Künker sale 294 (Osnabrück, Germany, July 2017), where it sold for €24,000 (about US$32,347 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"DIE GEISTLICHKEIT IN DEN HABSBURGISCHEN ERBLANDEN, Max Gandolph von Küenburg, 1668-1687. 10 Dukaten 1668, auf seinen Regierungsantritt. Variante mit nimbierten Heiligen. (geflügeltes Engelsköpfchen) MAXIMIL : GANDOLPH9 D : G : ARCHIEPS : SALISB : SE : AP : LE : S : R : I : PR : Sechsfeldiges Stifts- und Familienwappen, darüber Kardinalshut mit herabhängenden Quasten, zu den Seiten DEO - DVCE und unten die geteilte Jahreszahl 16 - 68, umher Laubkranz//(geflügeltes Engelköpfchen) SS : RVDBERTVS · ET · VIRGILIVS · PATRONI · SALISBVRGENSES · Die beiden Stiftsheiligen St. Rudbertus und St. Virgilius sitzen nebeneinander mit Mitra, Salzgefäß und Krummstab auf Wolken, die Köpfe einander zugewandt, davor Dommodell, umher Laubkranz. GOLD. Von großer Seltenheit. Sehr schön +. (Austrian church states, archbishopric of Salzburg, Max Gandolph von Küenburg, 1668-1687, ten ducats of 1668, on the coronation of the new archbishop, variety with cherub's head. Obverse: sixfold arms divides date, cardinal's hat above; reverse: cherub's head, St. Rubert and St. Virgilius sit side by side with miters, croziers and salt cellars, a wreath around. Very rare, very fine or better.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type also comes in klippe form (KM 605); it was accompanied by a quintuple ducat (Fr-802) among others. 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: 35 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 34,51 g.
Catalog reference: KM 604, Fr-797; Zöttl 1909.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- 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.
- Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Katalog 294: Goldprägungen | Deutsche Münzen ab 1871 | Russische Münzen und Medaillen, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2017.
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