Salzburg 1699 ducat Fr-836

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Künker sale 384, lot 2956

This specimen was lot 2956 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €7,500 (about US$9,692 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Johann Ernst von Thun und Hohenstein, 1687-1709. Dukat 1699, auf den Besuch des römischen Königs Josef I. und seiner Gemahlin Wilhelmine Amalie von Braunschweig-Lüneburg in Salzburg, anläßlich der Durchreise des Königspaares nach Wien. Verschlungenes Monogramm WAS (= Wilhelmina Amalia Sponsa), darüber Krone//Verschlungenes Monogramm IRS (= Josephus Rex Sponsus), darüber Krone. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 28, München 1989, Nr. 687. Die vorliegende "Auswurfmünze" wurde nach den Feierlichkeiten anläßlich des Besuches des Kaiserpaares in Salzburg in die Menge geworfen. (archbishopric of Salzburg, John Ernest of Thun and Hohenstein, 1687-1709, ducat of 1689, on the visit of the king of the Romans Joseph I and his wife Wilhelmine Amalie of Brunswick-Luneburg in Salzburg. Obverse: "WAS" monogram, crown above; reverse: "IRS" monogram, crown above. Attractive example with fne gold patina, extremely fine. This coin was thrown as largesse to the crowd after the festivities on the occasion of the imperial couple's visit to Salzburg.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This "largesse" ducat was accompanied by a ninth thaler and quarter thaler which we show below. Joseph did not become emperor until 1705; his title of "king of the Romans" was equivalent to the British "prince of Wales". 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: 3.50 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3,49 g.

Catalog reference: KM X5, Fr-836; Probszt 1758; Zöttl 2107 (Type 1). GOLD. RR Attraktives Exemplar mit feiner Goldpatina, vorzüglich.

Source:

  • 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.
  • 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, 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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