Salzburg (1587-93) 1/2 thaler Z-979

Künker sale 384, lot 2718

This specimen was lot 2718 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €140 (about US$ including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, 1587-1612. 1/2 Reichstaler o. J. R Fast sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, 1587-1612, undated half thaler, about very fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This half thaler was one of a series of commemorative silver coins struck at the beginning of Wolf's reign, ranging from three kreuzer to three thalers. Some were struck in klippe format and this one is undated. 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 13.98 g.

Catalog reference: Probszt 828; Zöttl 979 (Type 1).

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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Salzburg (1587-93) 1/2 thaler Z-979

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