After an exciting duel with applicants from other countries, an unnamed Slovak investor won the coin. He paid 1.14 million euros (30.16 million crowns) for the ten-decate. The month-old record for the sold St. Wenceslas Five-Ducate from 1937 was surpassed, which was auctioned at the beginning of October for 27 million crowns (excluding an auction surcharge of about 23 million crowns) in an auction organized by the Antium Aurum auction hall.
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The total results of the auction, which auctioned a total of 460 items, including paper notes, badges, medals and decorations, are still adding up. They will be available on November 12.
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The auction was the second held this year, the first took place at the end of April. Due to government measures, both were auctioned via telephone and the Internet.
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The biggest attraction was the almost 400-year-old coin – the ten-decate of King Ferdinand III. It is a late renaissance excavation with a hammer from a hand-engraved stamp.
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Multiples of ducats are very rare
“We first captured this particular piece in an auction in Amsterdam in May 1926. Since then, it has migrated through European collections until it landed back in Slovakia,” said the co-founder of the auction house, Elizej Macho.
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Multiples of Kremdin ducats by Ferdinand III. they are very rare. The proof is the fact that the auction hall in Slovakia has not yet recorded five- and ten-ducats of the given monarch.
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The Kremnica Mint is the oldest still existing mint in the world. It has been in operation since 1328, when it began minting silver Hungarian groschen for the Hungarian King Charles I Robert of Anjou. Later, she began minting golden florins, which were subsequently called ducats.
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In addition to the unique ten decade, Tuesday’s auction also offered other coins. Among the most interesting were, for example, the Prague ducat of Ferdinand I from 1538 with a starting price of 30 thousand euros (approximately 794 thousand crowns) and the extremely rare Transylvanian tolar of Štefan Bočekj from 1606. The Prague double ducat of Charles VI is also of great value. from 1725 and the Viennese four-ducat of Francis Joseph I from 1854. These had a starting price of 20,000 euros each (approximately 529,000 crowns).
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