Worms 1620 goldgulden Fr-3536
This specimen was lot 2530 in Künker sale 439 (Osnabrück, March 2026), where it sold for €1,400 (about US$1,926 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"WORMS, STADT Goldgulden 1620. GOLD. Sehr schön-vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Frankfurter Münzhandlung 151, Frankfurt/Main 1999, Nr. 1032. (city of Worms, goldgulden of 1620. Very fine to extremely fine.)"
This type is listed for 1616-22 as reasonably available. Worms neighbored Pfalz but was never part of it, being a free city. It was destroyed by the French in 1689 and never recovered its former importance. It was annexed to France 1801-15 but then passed to Hesse-Darmstadt.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.25 g, 0.917 fine gold, this specimen 3,14 g.
Catalog reference: KM 49, Fr-3536; Joseph 318 d.
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- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Frühjahrs-Auktion 439: Gold Coins from around the world, particularly Denmark, Habsburg, Malta and Saxony | German Coins after 1871 including Coins from the Collection of Jürgen and Erika Schmidt, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2026.
- 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.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
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