Salzburg 1686 1/2 ducat Fr-815

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Stack's Bowers 2022 ANA sale, lot 30294
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This specimen was lot 30294 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2022), where it sold for $720. The catalog description[1] noted, "AUSTRIA. Salzburg. 1/2 Ducat, 1686. Maximilian Gandolph von Kuenburg. PCGS AU-58. Residing at the precipice of Mint State status, this elegant fractional gold issue presents a staggering degree of original lustrous brilliance, a fairly sharp strike, and hardly anything in the way of handling or evidence of time in circulation. From the Augustana Collection." 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 1668-86; half ducats were minted for the rest of the century.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 1.75 g, 0.986 fine gold.

Catalog reference: Fr-815; KM-192; Zoettl-1964.

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.
  • 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.
  • Helmut Zottl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 ANA Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring The Salton Collection Part III, the Augustana Collection and the Robert C. Knepper Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

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