10 Dukat wikariacki - August III Sas Drezno mint

The Vicariate ducat issues of the Holy Roman Empire were struck only when the imperial throne fell vacant — the Elector of Saxony, as Imperial Vicar for the Ernestine territories, held the hereditary right to administer justice and mint coinage during the interregnum. This 1741 piece commemorates the vacancy following the death of Charles VI in October 1740, which also ignited the War of Austrian Succession. Augustus III exercised his vicariat rights aggressively, producing a range of gold multiples at Dresden that functioned as diplomatic gifts and demonstrations of electoral prestige rather than circulating money.

At 10 ducats, this is among the heaviest denominations struck under that authority. Surviving examples in any condition are infrequent; most known pieces passed through major European auction houses in the twentieth century having spent their existence in aristocratic cabinets.