Zurich 1709 1/4 ducat Fr-488

Künker sale 406, lot 3650

This specimen was lot 3650 in Künker sale 406 (Osnabruck, March 2024), where it sold for €600 (about US$787 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"SCHWEIZ, ZÜRICH, Stadt. 1/4 Dukat 1709. GOLD. Selten in dieser Erhaltung. Vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (Switzerland, canton of Zurich, quarter ducat of 1709. Scarce in this quality, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"

This type was struck 1708-09, 1712-16. Similar quarter ducats were struck for the remainder of the century.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 0.87 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 0.89 g.

Catalog reference: KM 129, D./T. 415 b; Fr-488 (incorrectly described).

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• 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.
• Richter, Jürg, and Ruedi Kunzmann, Neuer HMZ-Katalog, Band 2: Die Münzen der Schweiz und Liechtensteins 15//16. Jahrhundert bis Gegenwart, Regenstauf, Germany: H. Gietl Verlag GmbH, 2006.
• ^[1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 406: Gold Coins | Coins and Medals from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. Löwenstein-Wertheim | German Coins after 1871, a. o. Patterns from the Coenen Collection, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.

Link to:

• 1708 quarter ducat
• 1709 half thaler
• 1709 half ducat
• 1709 ducat
• 1712 quarter ducat
• 1712 double ducat
• Coins and currency dated 1709