Salzburg 1513 1/4 guldiner

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Künker sale 384, lot 2514

This specimen was lot 2514 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €1,600 (about US$2,068 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Leonhard von Keutschach, 1495-1519. 1/4 Guldinerklippe 1513. Mit dem Buchstaben B auf dem Rand der Vorderseite. RR Henkelspur, Reste von Vergoldung, sehr schön. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 2, Bad Mergentheim 1975, Nr. 520. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Leonhard von Keutschach, 1495-1519, quarter guldiner klippe of 1513, with a "B" on the rim of the obverse. Very rare, mount mark, remnants of gilding, very fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. At this time, one thaler was sixty kreuzer, making this coin fifteen kreuzer. 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 6.92 g.

Catalog reference: Probszt 92; Zöttl 55 (Type 4).

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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