Austria 1800-D 1/2 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 3262 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €240 (about US$310 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Franz II. (I.), 1792-1804-1835. Ku.-1/2 Kreuzer 1800, D, Salzburg. Von großer Seltenheit. Fast sehr schön. (principality of Salzburg, Francis I, 1804-35, copper half kreuzer of 1800, Salzburg mint. Extremely rare, about very fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck in 1800 for the emperor at seven mints (A (Vienna, common), B (Karlsburg, rare), C (Prague, somewhat common), D (Salzburg, rare, shown here), E (Kremnitz, rare), F (Hall, rare), G (Gunzburg, rare)). In the seventeenth century, Salzburg was blessed with a number of productive silver mines and the prince-archbishop was a prolific issuer of coins, particularly thalers. The archbishopric was secularized in 1803 and passed to Austria in 1814.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper, this specimen 2.13 g.
Catalog reference: KM 2108 (listed under Austria), J. 119; Probszt 2638; Zöttl 3447.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 384: Münzen, Medaillen und Marken von Salzburg - Die Sammlung Professor Dr. Franz Schedel, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2023.
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