Salzburg 1658 1/4 ducat Fr-777
This specimen was lot 2872 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €300 (about US$388 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Guidobald von Thun und Hohenstein, 1654-1668. 1/4 Dukat 1658. GOLD. Min. gewellt, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 29, München 1989, Nr. 728. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Guidobald of Thun and Hohenstein, 1654-68, quarter ducat of 1658. Slightly wavy, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck 1654-55, 1658-62 and 1666. This denomination proved popular enough that it was struck by various archbishops until 1782. In the seventeenth century, Salzburg was blessed with a number of productive silver mines and the prince-archbishop was a prolific issuer of coins, particularly thalers. The archbishopric was secularized in 1803 and passed to Austria in 1814.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 0.875 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 0.89 g.
Catalog reference: KM 163, Fr-777; Probszt 1466; Zöttl 1782.
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- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 384: Münzen, Medaillen und Marken von Salzburg - Die Sammlung Professor Dr. Franz Schedel, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2023.
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