Salzburg 1512 4 kreuzer
This specimen was part of lot 2516 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €600 (about US$775 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Leonhard von Keutschach, 1495-1519. 4 Kreuzer (Batzen) 4 Kreuzer (Batzen) 1500 (2x), 1508, 1509, 1510, 1511, 1512, 1513, 1514 (2x, 1x mit gotischer 4), 1515, 1516, 1517, 1518, 1519, 1521. Probszt 99 (2x), 101-108, 110-115; Zöttl Typ 1 = 60 (2x), 61-67, 67 Anm. 68-73. 16 Stück., Meist sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Leonhard von Keutschach, 1495-1519, four kreuzer or batzen of 1500-21, sixteen pieces, mostly very fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. The batzen, or four kreuzer, was a denomination long used in Switzerland. At this time, one thaler was sixty kreuzer or fifteen batzen. 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 or billon.
Catalog reference: Probszt 113?; Zöttl 71?.
- 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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