Salzburg 1690 3 ducat Fr-830

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Künker sale 294, lot 3473

This specimen was lot 3473 in Künker sale 294 (Osnabrück, Germany, July 2017), where it sold for €11,000 (about US$14,826 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"DIE GEISTLICHKEIT IN DEN HABSBURGISCHEN ERBLANDEN, Johann Ernst von Thun und Hohenstein, 1687-1709. 3 Dukaten 1690. IOAN : ERNEST9 D : G : ARCHIEP : SAL : SE : AP : LE : Sechsfeldiges Stifts- und Familienwappen mit Mittelschild, darüber Kardinalshut mit herabhängenden Quasten, dahinter Krummstab und Schwert gekreuzt//SANCTUS RVDBERTUS EPS SALISBVRG : 1690 St. Rudbertus mit Mitra, Salzgefäß und Krummstab thront v. v. GOLD. RR Sehr attraktives Exemplar mit feinem Prägeglanz, winz. Schrötlingsriß, vorzüglich. (Austrian church states, archbishopric of Salzburg, John Ernest of Thun und Hohenstein, 1687-1709, triple ducat of 1690. Obverse: sixfold arms, cardinal's hat above; reverse: St. Rupert seated with crozier, miter and salt cellar. Rare, very attractive example with fine toning, edge crack, extremely fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. Altho the cataloguers listed this as a triple ducat, the reported weight strongly suggests that this is a double ducat. 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: 10.5 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 6.96 g.

Catalog reference: KM 275, Fr-830; Zöttl 2109.

Source:

  • Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
  • 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.
  • 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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