Silesia-Liegnitz-Brieg 1610 4 ducats Fr-3152

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Künker sale 354, lot 5248

This specimen was lot 5248 in Künker sale 354 (Osnabruck, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €26,000 (about US$36,184 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"SCHLESIEN, LIEGNITZ-BRIEG, HERZOGTUM, Johann Christian und Georg Rudolf, 1602-1621. 4 Dukaten 1610, CT, Reichenstein. Münzverwalter Christoph Tuchmann. D : G ° IOHAN ° CHRIST ° ET ° GEOR ° RVD ° FRA ° Die geharnischten Hüftbilder einander gegenüber, oben Reichsapfel, der die Umschrift teilt//DVC · SIL · LIG · - · ET · BREG · 610 · Dreifach behelmtes, vierfeldiges Wappen, am Ende der Umschrift die Signatur CT (Münzverwalter Christoph Tuchmann). In US-Plastikholder der NGC mit der Bewertung MS 61 (5945389-006). GOLD. RR Prachtexemplar. Vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (Germany, duchy of Silesia-Liegnitz-Brieg, John Christian and George Rudolf, 1602-21, quadruple ducat of 1610, Reichenstein mint.)"

Silesia is considered a German State even tho the province was then under Austrian rule and is now in Poland. This rare type was struck using half thaler dies. John Christian was raised a Lutheran and became a Calvinist as a adult. Silesia, tho under Hapsburg rule, was then mostly Protestant. He supported Frederick V against Ferdinand II and was forced to go into exile after the Protestants were crushed at the battle of the White Mountain in 1620.

Recorded mintage: unknown but rare.

Specification: 14 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 13,89 g.

Catalog reference: KM 110, Fr-3152; F. u. S. 1446.

Source:

  • 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 354: Munzen und Medaillen aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit u. a. Braunschweig-Luneburg. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2021.

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