Auction Highlight: Double Ducat, 1770, Siegmund III. Graf Schrattenbach
Numismatik Zöttl – E-Auktion 22 (October 22nd, 2023), Los 569. (Starting bid: 1.800€)
Siegmund III Christoph Graf von Schrattenbach was Archbishop of Salzburg from 1753 until his death in 1771. During his reign, he initiated the construction of the Siegmund Gate through the Mönchsberg in Salzburg, Which was named after him. This tunnel brought a better opening to the city fron the west. The coat of arms on the reverse shows in the heart shield his ancestral coat of arms: in the black field a white oblique right river, in the left upper corner a golden star, in the right lower corner an upright truncated golden branch set with three golden leaves on the right.
This double Ducat will be auctioned at Numismatik Zöttl in the E-Auction 22 on October 22nd starting at 17:00 under lot number 569. The starting bid is 1.800 €.
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