Poland 1609 ducat Fr-82

from the Stack's Bowers 2022 NYINC sale, lot 4394

This specimen was lot 4394 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it sold for $21,600. The catalog description^[1] noted, "A Rare 1609 Ducat from Krakow, Once Part of the Frankiewicz Collection, POLAND. Ducat, 1609. Krakow Mint. Sigismund III. PCGS Genuine--Cleaned, AU Details. This RARE product of the Krakow mint is a piece that rarely reaches the secondary numismatic market. Issues in gold from Krakow are vanishingly hard to find, with almost no trace of these elusive issues in public auction records. This example does bear evidence of an old light cleaning with some hairlines visible under magnification. Nonetheless, this example has much luster remaining and no effacement of details. About as rare as Polish gold issues come, this example is sure to excite. As with most of Salton's Polish gold highlights, this piece originated in a sale from the Frankiewicz Collection that his father Schlessinger sold (9/1930) lot #193. From the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection. Ex: Frankiewicz Collection (Schlessinger-9/1930) Lot #193." This type was struck 1609-12.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 3.5 g, 0.986 fine gold.

Catalog reference: KM 9, Fr-82; H-C-7438; Kop-1405 (R8); Dutkowski-16 (R8).

Source:

• 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.
• ^[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.

Link to:

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