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Poland: Breslau. Karl Ferdinand of Poland gold 10 Ducats 1639,...

2010 January Signature World Coin Auction #3008

 
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Exceedingly Rare 1639 Gold 10 Ducats of Karl Ferdinand Vasa, Prince of Poland
Breslau. Karl Ferdinand of Poland gold 10 Ducats 1639, Facing bust with date below/Two shields, with scepter and sword behind, eye of God above, F-503a, struck with dies for the 1639 Taler Dav-5114, 44 mm, 34.59 gm, XF40 NGC. Slightly wavy flan with a small rim bump at 12 o'clock. Exceedingly rare, and we can find no record of sale of this exceptional piece.

Karl Ferdinand Vasa was Prince Bishop of Breslau/Wroclaw from 1625, Bishop of Plock from 1640, and Duke of Opole from 1648 until his death in 1655. He was the fourth son of King Sigismund III Vasa and his wife Constance of Austria. Karl was a great patron of the arts and donated an enormous silver altar to the Jesuits' Church in Warsaw. He had a magnificent palace in Warsaw that was destroyed by the Swedes and Germans in the 1650's, and a smaller palace in Wyszkow. He died in Poland in 1655, in Wyszkow.

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