Salzburg 1671 1/4 ducat Fr-817
This specimen was lot 2918 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €300 (about US$388 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Max Gandolph von Küenburg, 1668-1687. 1/4 Dukat 1671. GOLD. Sehr schön-vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 10, München 1980, Nr. 85. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Max Gandolph of Küenburg, 1668-87, quarter ducat of 1671. 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 was struck in 1668-72, 1675-78, 1682, 1686. 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: 1.75 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 0.87 g.
Catalog reference: KM 191, Fr-817; Probszt 1642; Zöttl 1969.
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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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