Salzburg 1571 guldenthaler
This specimen was lot 3221 in Künker Auction 426 (Osnabrück, July 2025), where it sold for €200 (about US$283 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"HABSBURGISCHE ERBLANDE-ÖSTERREICH · DIE GEISTLICHKEIT IN DEN HABSBURGISCHEN ERBLANDEN, SALZBURG, ERZBISTUM Johann Jakob Khuen von Belasi, 1560-1586. Guldentaler (60 Kreuzer) 1571, mit Titel Maximilians II. Leicht korrodiert, sehr schön +. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Johann Jakob Khuen von Belasi, 1560-86, guldenthaler or sixty kreuzer of 1571, struck in the name of Maximilian II. Lightly corroded, very fine or better.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This denomination appears for the first time from various German states in the 1560's. It marks the separation between the gulden (always sixty kreuzer) and the thaler (first 60, then 72, then 90 and finally 120 kreuzer in the mid-eighteenth century). This type was struck 1569-76. Half guldenthalers of thirty kreuzer also exist. 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.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 24.5 g, silver, 38 mm diameter, this specimen 24,49 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-123; Zöttl 632.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Davenport, John S., Silver Gulden, 1559-1763, Frankfurt am Main, Numismatischer Verlag P. N. Schulten, 1982.
- 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, eLive Premium Auction 426: European and German Coins and Medals from the 16th to the 20th century, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2025.
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