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CNG 100, Lot: 566. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUSTRIA, Holy Roman Empire. Franz I. Emperor, 1745-1765. AV Dukat (22mm, 3.48 g, 12h). Commemorating the Visit of the Imperial Couple to the Hungarian Mines. Wien (Vienna) mint. Unsigned, but by Mathias Donner. Dated 1751. Crowned busts of Franz I and Maria Theresia vis-à-vis / ADVENTUS/AUGUSTI/IN FODINAS/HUNGARIAE/INFERIORIS/MDCCLI in six lines; crossed pick and sledgehammer below. Cf. J. Boublik, Coins and medals of the emperor Francis Stephen of Lorraine (Prague, 2011) 86 (example in silver); Julius 1840; Friedberg 419. VF, slightly wavy flan.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from James Elmen, 1977.