Transylvania 1611 ducat Fr-336

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from the Stack's Bowers 2022 NYINC sale, lot 1600
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This specimen was lot 1600 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it sold for $6,000. The catalog description[1] noted, "TRANSYLVANIA. Ducat, 1611/0. Gabriel Bathori. PCGS MS-62. Overdate. The only example graded on the PCGS population report. This RARE Ducat from the land where Bram Stoker's Dracula was set offers uncirculated details and a pale golden tone. Very little evidence of handling is present, but some weakness of strike is noted, a common affliction for the type. A great piece that only occasionally reaches market." The princes of Transylvania were sandwiched between the Ottoman Empire to the south and the Hapsburg dominions to the west and attempted to maintain independence from both. The Hapsburgs reconquered Hungary from the Turks in the 1680's and ended Transylvanian autonomy. This type was struck 1610-13.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 3.50 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3.47 g.

Catalog reference: Fr-336; KM-74; Resch-113; Huszar-244.

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.
  • Adolf Resch, Siebenburgische Münzen und Medaillen von 1538 bis Gegenwart. Hermannstadt, 1901 (reprinted in Montreal, 1965).
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 NYINC Sale: World and Ancient Coins, featuring the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection and the Pat Johnson Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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