Salzburg 1722 ducat Fr-844
This specimen was lot 3014 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €2,800 (about US$3,618 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Franz Anton von Harrach, 1709-1727. Dukat 1722. GOLD. R Vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. Erworben im März 1986 von der Partin Bank, Bad Mergentheim. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Francis Anthony of Harrach, 1709-27, ducat of 1722. Rare, 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 1709-26 and is slightly more available than the ducat with the archbishop's bust (Fr-842). 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 3.48 g.
Catalog reference: KM 299, Fr-844; Probszt 1961; Zöttl 2353 (Type 2).
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- [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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