Salzburg 1522 ducat Fr-600
This specimen was lot 3662 in Sincona sale 26 (Zürich, October 2015), where it sold for 1,050 CHF (about US$1,297 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Salzburg, Erzbistum, Matthäus Lang von Wellenberg, 1519-1540 Dukat 1522. Selten. Fast vorzüglich. Etwas gewellt. (Germany, archbishopric of Salzburg, Matthäus Lang von Wellenberg, 1519-1540, ducat of 1522. Scarce, choice extremely fine, bent.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type is listed for 1519-40, i.e., the archbishop's entire reign yet it remains scarce. In the seventeenth century it 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: 3.5 g, 0.986 fine gold.
Catalog reference: Zöttl 157. BR -. Probszt -. Fr-600.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- 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.
- Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
- [1]Numismatic Coins, Medals & Banknotes: Auction 4, Zürich: SINCONA AG, 2011.
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