Salzburg 1728 1/4 ducat Fr-851

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Ponterio sale 169, lot 12015
photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 12015 in Ponterio sale 169 (Baltimore, November 2012), where it sold for $345. The catalog description[1] noted, "AUSTRIA. Salzburg. 1/4 Ducat, 1728. NGC MS-63. Leopold Anton Eleutherius von Firmian (1727-44). From the Demarete 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 was struck 1728, 1734 and 1740.

Recorded mintage: unknown but scarce.

Specification: 0.87 g, .987 fine gold.

Catalog reference: Fr-851; KM-330.

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.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • 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]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio sale 169: The November 2012 Baltimore Auction, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers, LLC, 2012.

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