Schaumburg-Pinneberg 1624 4 ducats Fr-3067a
This specimen was lot 1572 in Künker Auction 425 (Osnabrück, July 2025), where it sold for €30,000 (about US$42,480 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"DEUTSCHE MÜNZEN UND MEDAILLEN · HOLSTEIN-SCHAUENBURG, GRAFSCHAFT Justus Hermann, 1622-1635. 4 Dukaten 1624, mit Titel Ferdinands II. Geprägt mit den Stempeln des Reichstalers. IVST9 HERM9 D : G · C · H · S · E · S · D · G · E · B Dreifach behelmtes, vierfeldiges Wappen (Sternberg/Gehmen) mit Mittelschild Nesselblatt (Holsteinisch-Schauenburg)//: FERDINANDVS · II · - · D G · RO · IM · SEM · AV · Gekrönter Doppeladler, auf der Brust Reichsapfel, unten die geteilte Jahreszahl 1 - 6 - Z - 4. GOLD. Von allergrößter Seltenheit. 2. bekanntes Exemplar. Sehr schön. Aus der Sammlung eines deutschen Fabrikanten und Geschichtsfreundes. Exemplar der Slg. Dr. Hergen Boyksen, Auktion Fritz Rudolf Künker 337, Osnabrück 2020, Nr. 272. (Germany, county of Holstein-Schaumburg, Justus Hermann, 1622-35, quadruple ducat of 1624, struck in the name of Ferdinand II using thaler dies. Obverse: triple helmeted and quartered arms of Sternberg and Gehmen with the escutcheon of Nesselblatt in Holstein; reverse: crowned double headed eagle supporting an orb, the date amongst its claws. Supremely rare, only two known, very fine.)
Graf Justus Hermann wurde 1593 als Sohn des Grafen Heinrich auf Gehmen, ältester Sohn des Grafen Justus II. und Großneffe von Graf Ernst III. geboren. Während seiner Regierung litt sein Land sehr unter der Not des Dreißigjährigen Krieges. Er selbst war oft außer Landes. Sein Vater Heinrich hatte die Herrschaft in Bergen in Nordholland hinzuerworben. Deshalb nannten sich die Grafen von Holstein-Schauenburg und Sternberg, Herr zu Gehmen und Bergen. (Count Justus Hermann was born in 1593 as the son of Count Heinrich von Gehmen, the eldest son of Count Justus II and great-nephew of Count Ernst III. During his reign, his country suffered greatly from the hardships of the Thirty Years' War. He himself was often away from the country. His father, Heinrich, had acquired the lordship of Bergen in North Holland. Therefore, the Counts of Holstein-Schauenburg and Sternberg called themselves Lords of Gehmen and Bergen.)"
The dynastic affairs of this duchy are complicated even by German standards as the dukes were related to the king of Denmark and even the czar of Russia. This type was struck 1622-23, before the local dynasty lapsed in 1640. Schaumburg proper is adjacent to Lippe in lower Saxony. The county of Schaumburg-Pinneberg is on the north bank of the Elbe, between Hamburg and Gluckstadt. Erected in the fourteenth century, the line fell extinct in 1640 and the county was annexed by the king of Denmark as duke of Holstein.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 14 g, 0.986 fine gold, 42 mm diameter, this specimen 13,04 g.
Catalog reference: KM A139, Lange 946 A; Weinm. -; Fr-3067a (2 known, "Very rare").
- 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.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 425: Gold coins from the Medieval and Modern Times, from the Mohr family collection, e.g. | Silver coins, e.g. highlights of medallic art | German coins after 1871, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2025.
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