Salzburg 1518 ducat Fr-579
This specimen was lot 2513 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €1,300 (about US$1,680 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Leonhard von Keutschach, 1495-1519. Dukat 1518. Ohne Ringel zu den Seiten der Jahreszahl. GOLD. R Fassungsspuren, min. gewellt, Schürfspuren, sehr schön-vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 29, München 1989, Nr. 711. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Leonhard von Keutschach, 1495-1519, ducat of 1518, no arc around the date. Rare, removed from jewelry, slightly wavy, edge filed, very fine to extremely fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type is listed for 1500-19. It and the slightly lighter goldgulden (Fr-580) are the first gold coins of this state not astronomically priced. 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: 3.50 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 2.95 g.
Catalog reference: Fr-579; Probszt 75; Zöttl 35 (Type 3).
- 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]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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