Salzburg 1505 pfennig
This specimen was part of lot 2519 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €280 (about US$362 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Leonhard von Keutschach, 1495-1519. Einseitiger Pfennig Einseitiger Pfennig 1500, 1506, 1508, 1509, 1510, 1511, 1512, 1514, 1515, 1516, 1517, 1518, 1519. Probszt 125-137; Zöttl Typ 1 = 86-93, 95-100. 13 Stück., Meist sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Leonhard von Keutschach, 1495-1519, uniface pennies of 1500-1519, thirteen pieces, mostly very fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. 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. This type was struck 1500, 1505-19. The archbishopric was secularized in 1803 and passed to Austria in 1814.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 0.35 g, billon, 14 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: Probszt 125?; Zöttl Type 1 = 86?.
- 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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