Silesia-Liegnitz-Brieg 1607 ducat Fr-3145
This specimen was lot 2139 in Künker sale 352 (Osnabruck, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €3,800 (about US$5,289 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SCHLESIEN, LIEGNITZ-BRIEG, HERZOGTUM, Johann Christian und Georg Rudolf, 1602-1621. Dukat 1607, Reichenstein. GOLD. R Kl. Henkelspur, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (Germany, duchy of Silesia-Liegnitz-Brieg, John Christian and George Rudolf, 1602-21, ducat of 1607, Reichenstein mint. Rare, small mount mark, very fine to extremely fine.)"
Silesia is considered a German State even tho the province was then under Austrian rule and is now in Poland. The coinage ceased when the last of the local dukes died in 1675. This scarce type was struck 1606-09.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.49 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3.43 g.
Catalog reference: KM 55, Fr-3145; F. u. S. 1414.
- 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, Künker Auktion 352: Die Sammlung Hermann Schwarz: Faszination des gepragten Goldes. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2021.
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