Salzburg (1586-87) 1/4 thaler

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Künker sale 384, lot 2663

This specimen was lot 2663 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €1,800 (about US$2,326 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Georg von Küenburg, 1586-1587. 1/4 Reichstalerklippe o. J. RR Hübsche Patina, Fassungsspuren, sonst fast vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Lanz 8, Graz 1976, Nr. 88. (archbishopric of Salzburg, George of Kuenburg, 1586-87, undated klippe quarter thaler. Very rare, nice patina, traces of tooling, otherwise about extremely fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This klippe quarter thaler accompanied half thalers and thalers. George's reign was brief and his coins are few but Davenport records similar thalers for 1586 (Dav-8178, two saints, and Dav-8179, one saint). 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: silver, this specimen 7.19 g.

Catalog reference: Probszt 699; Zöttl 801 (Type 2).

Source:

  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • 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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