Salzburg 1556 pfennig
This specimen was part of lot 2596 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €110 (about US$142 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Michael von Küenburg, 1554-1560. Einseitiger 2 Pfennig (Zweier) 1555, 1556, 1557, 1558, 1559. Probszt 431, 432, 433, 434, 435; Zöttl 479, 480, 481, 482, 483. 5 Stück., Meist fast sehr schön. 1555: Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 10, München 1980, Nr. 556. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Michael of Küenburg, 1554-60, uniface tuppence of 1555-59. Five pieces, mostly about very fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. Four pfennig made a kreuzer and sixty kreuzer made a guldiner. 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: billon.
Catalog reference: Probszt 432; Zöttl 480.
- 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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