| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 162 | Auction date: 6 November 2025 |
| Lot number: 1054 Price realized: 140,000 CHF (Approx. 172,584 USD / 150,355 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Germany City of Augsburg 10 Ducats 1744, Augsburg mint, mint master Johann Christian Holeisen, AV 34.76 g. Dies by Jonas Thiebaud. View of the city from the east, above it the shining eye of God. Above the exergue line T (initial of the die cutter), below it the year MDCCXLIV between two horseshoes (the mark of the mint master). Rev. Bust of Emperor Charles VII wearing a laurel wreath, draped and armoured, with the chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece to the right, below in an oval the initials of the die cutter IT. With leaf rim. F. 97 ('very rare'); Forster -; Forster/Schmid -; Vetterle 1744.2. Of the highest rarity. Struck with the taler dies. With minor marks, extremely fine NGC MS 61 (2175164-002) One of the few multiple ducats bearing the image of Charles VII, the last emperor from the House of Wittelsbach. Alongside Philipp Heinrich Müller, Jonas Thiebaud is arguably the most important medallist and engraver of coin-dies from Augsburg. He was born at Neuchâtel in 1695. From his youth he devoted himself to die-sinking; from 1710 to 1714 he was apprenticed to Dassier at Geneva; on his return to Neuchatel, he was often employed by the Mint of Berne. From 1724 to 1733 he was working for the Count of Montfort, the Prince of Hohenzollern, and the Canton of Lucerne. Later he was for three years in the service of the Ducal mint of Württemberg and from there he went to St. Gall and Appenzell. In 1740 he took an appointment as Medal-engraver to the Mint at Augsburg, where he obtained the citizenship and a pension. He engraved a great many coin-dies also for Haldenstein, Mannheim, Baden-Durlach, Appenzell, Eichstätt, Ulm, Bavaria, Bückeburg Lindau, Hildesheim and Münster. Estimate: 75000 CHF |  |
