CNG 100, Lot: 699. Estimate $2500. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Sachsen-Albertinische Linie (Kurfürstentum). Friedrich August I (August II von Polen). 1694-1733. AV Dukat (23mm, 3.46 g, 1h). Leipzig mint; Ernst Peter Hecht, mintmaster. Dated 1712. Elector, wearing armor and holding a scepter, on horseback right; in exergue, EPH• / Crowned Saxon-Polish coat-of-arms over trophies of flags and arms; below, crossed palm fronds and laurel branches and a fish to right (mintmaster’s mark). KM 736; Friedberg 2806; Hutten-Czapski 4629. EF, lustrous, some hairlines, light waviness.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, July 1979.