Salzburg 1551 guldiner Dav-8168
This specimen was lot 2578 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €700 (about US$905 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Ernst von Bayern, 1540-1554. Guldiner 1551. Mit Kreuz am Anfang der Vorderseitenumschrift. Sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Ernest of Bavaria, 1540-54, guldiner of 1551. With cross at start of obverse legend. Very fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type is listed for 1540, 1546 and 1549-54. A rare double guldiner (Dav-8167) was struck in 1551. Ernst was made archbishop without ever taking holy orders and finally abdicated in 1554 to Silesia after repeated deadlines from the pope. 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 28.45 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-8168; Probszt 362; Zöttl 396.
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- 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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