Salzburg 1753 1/4 ducat Fr-377

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Künker sale 384, lot 3142

This specimen was lot 3142 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €700 (about US$905 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Sigismund III. von Schrattenbach, 1753-1771. 1/4 Dukat 1753. GOLD. RR Vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 314, Frankfurt/Main 1985, Nr. 2429. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Sigismund III of Schrattenbach, 1753-71, quarter ducat of 1753. Very rare, extremely fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck 1753 and is not rare despite being a one year type. 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: 0.875 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 0.85 g.

Catalog reference: KM 371, Fr-877; Probszt 2272; Zöttl 2941 (Type 1).

Source:

  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • 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.
  • 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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