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''Specification:'' 21 g, .986 fine gold, this specimen 20,88 g.  
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''Catalog reference:'' Probszt 1750; Zöttl 2103; Fr-826, KM 260.  
 
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* [[Salzburg 1687 3 kreuzer|1687 3 kreuzer]]
 
* [[Salzburg 1687 3 kreuzer|1687 3 kreuzer]]
* [[Salzburg 1687 15 kreuzer|1687 15 kreuzer]]
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* [[Salzburg 1687 15 kreuzer|1687 XV kreuzer]]
 
* [[Salzburg 1687 1/6 thaler|1687 klippe 1/6 thaler]]
 
* [[Salzburg 1687 1/6 thaler|1687 klippe 1/6 thaler]]
 
* [[Salzburg 1687 1/4 thaler|1687 klippe quarter thaler]]
 
* [[Salzburg 1687 1/4 thaler|1687 klippe quarter thaler]]

Latest revision as of 16:56, 16 August 2023

Jean Elsen sale 137, lot 1139

This specimen was lot 1139 in Jean Elsen sale 137 (Brussels, June 2018), where it sold for €8,000 (about US$11,132 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"SAINT EMPIRE, SALZBOURG, Archevêché, Johann Ernst von Thun und Hohenstein (1687-1709), AV 6 ducats, 1687. Frappé avec les coins du demi-Taler. D/ Armoiries. R/ Les saints patrons de Salzbourg assis de f. derrière une maquette d'église. Très rare Avec la valeur 6 gravée dans le champ. Brillant de frappe. Superbe. (archbishoric of Salzburg, John Ernest of Thun and Hohenstein, 1687-1709, gold six ducats of 1687, struck with half-thaler dies. Obverse: arms; reverse: the patron saints of Salzburg sit facing, a model of the cathedral at their feet. Very rare with the value "6" graffitied in the field. Mint luster, Extremely Fine.)"

This is one of a series of multiple ducats which included four ducats (KM 258), five ducats (KM 259), six ducats (shown here), 7 ducats (KM 261), 8 ducats (KM 262), ten ducats (KM 263), twelve ducats (KM 264), fifteen ducats (KM 265), twenty ducats (KM 266), and a monstrous fifty ducats (KM 267).

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 21 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 20,88 g.

Catalog reference: Probszt 1750; Zöttl 2103; Fr-826, KM 260.

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.
  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
  • [1]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Vente Publique 137, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils, S.A., 2018.

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