Salzburg 1520 batzen
This specimen was lot 1022 in Jean Elsen price list 259 (Brussels, January-March 2012), where it was offered at € 125. The catalog noted,
"SAINT EMPIRE, SALZBOURG, Archevêché, Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg (1519-1540), AR Batzen, 1520, Droit: Les écus de l'archevêché et de l'archevêque accolés sous un chapeau de cardinal. En dessous, la date. Revers: B. de saint Rupert de face, tenant un saloir et une crosse. Très Beau à Superbe (Archbishopric of Salzburg, Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg (1519-1540), silver batzen of 1520. Obverse: arms of the archbishop and of the archbishopric, cardinal's hat above, date below; reverse: facing bust of St. Rupert, bearing a crozier and a salt casket. VF - EF)"
We aren't quite sure of the face value of this coin as issues of the seventeenth century were based on pfennig and kreuzer and not batzen, a coin better known in Switzerland. A batzen was usually four kreuzer.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 2,95 g.
Catalog reference: Probszt, 258; Schulten, 4317.
- 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.
- Elsen, Philippe, et al., Liste 259, Brussels: Jean Elsen & ses Fils, S.A., 2012.
Link to:
- Salzburg 1516 4 kreuzer = batzen
- 1517 ducat
- 1518 2 kreuzer klippe = ½ batzen
- 1518 ducat
- 1520 ducat
- 1521 double guldiner
- 1521 double guldiner
- 1521 ducat
- 1521 double ducat
- Coins and currency dated 1520
- return to coins of Austria, Salzburg