Salzburg 1555 1/2 guldiner
This specimen was lot 2593 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €300 (about US$388 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Michael von Küenburg, 1554-1560. 1/2 Guldiner 1555. RR Fast sehr schön. Exemplar der Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 298, Frankfurt/Main 1979, Nr. 2212. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Michael of Küenburg, 1554-60, half guldiner of 1555. Very rare, about very fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. We don't know when this was struck but the similar guldiner (Dav-8170) was struck 1555-59. 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 14.06 g.
Catalog reference: Probszt 425; Zöttl 470.
- 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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