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[[Image:Uri 1736 ducat rev Heritage 3021-22783.jpg|300px|thumb|photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries]]
 
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This specimen was lot 22783 in Heritage sale 3021 (New York, January 2013), where it sold for $2,585. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "Uri. Gold Ducat 1736/20, MS63 NGC, prooflike mint luster, highly attractive, noted by NGC as struck over Fr-406. Very scarce type in mint state." Unlike the extensive coinage of Basel, [[Bern 1741 ducat Fr-172|Bern]] or Zurich, the forest canton of Uri issued only a few, rare ducats such as this one with a cow's head.  
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This specimen was lot 22783 in Heritage sale 3021 (New York, January 2013), where it sold for $2,585. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "Uri. Gold Ducat 1736/20, MS63 NGC, prooflike mint luster, highly attractive, noted by NGC as struck over Fr-406. Very scarce type in mint state." Unlike the extensive coinage of Basel, [[Bern 1741 ducat Fr-172|Bern]] or Zürich, the forest canton of Uri issued only a few, rare ducats such as this one with a cow's head.  
  
 
''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.
 
''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

Latest revision as of 08:39, 11 June 2025

Heritage sale 3021, lot 22783
photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries

This specimen was lot 22783 in Heritage sale 3021 (New York, January 2013), where it sold for $2,585. The catalog description[1] noted, "Uri. Gold Ducat 1736/20, MS63 NGC, prooflike mint luster, highly attractive, noted by NGC as struck over Fr-406. Very scarce type in mint state." Unlike the extensive coinage of Basel, Bern or Zürich, the forest canton of Uri issued only a few, rare ducats such as this one with a cow's head.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 3.5 g, 0.986 fine gold, .110 troy oz AGW.

Catalog reference: KM 38, Fr-407.

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.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • [1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and David Michaels, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3021, featuring the Cecil Webster, Richard P. Ariagno and Elizabeth McPhall Charters Collection, Dallas: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2012.

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