Salzburg 1695 ducat Fr-833
This specimen was lot 2967 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €1,500 (about US$1,938 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Johann Ernst von Thun und Hohenstein, 1687-1709. Dukat 1695. GOLD. R Attraktives Exemplar mit feiner Goldpatina, min. Schrötlingsfehler auf der Rückseite, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (archbishopric of Salzburg, John Ernest of Thun and Hohenstein, 1687-1709, ducat of 1695. Rare, attractive example with fine gold patina, minor die cracks on the reverse, Extremely fine to uncirculated.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck 1687-1708. 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: 1.75 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3.47 g.
Catalog reference: KM 257, Fr-833; Probszt 1767; Zöttl 2124 (Type 1).
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- Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 384: Münzen, Medaillen und Marken von Salzburg - Die Sammlung Professor Dr. Franz Schedel, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2023.
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