Salzburg 1572 guldenthaler

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Künker sale 384, lot 2639

This specimen was lot 2639 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €480 (about US$620 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Johann Jakob Khuen von Belasi, 1560-1586. Guldentaler (60 Kreuzer) 1572, mit Titel Maximilians II. Mit S - R oben neben St. Rudbertus. Hübsche Patina, winz. Druckstelle, sehr schön +. (archbishopric of Salzburg, John Jacob Khuen of Belasi, 1560-86, guldenthaler of sixty kreuzer of 1572, struck in the name of Maximilian II, with "S - R" over St. Rudbert's shoulders. Handsome patina, small punch mark on the obverse, choice very fine.)"

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). At this time, this coin was 5/6 of a thaler. 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. The archbishopric was secularized in 1803 and passed to Austria in 1814.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 24.6 g, 0.931 fine silver, this specimen 24,31 g.

Catalog reference: Dav-123; Probszt -; Zöttl 638 (Type 3).

Source:

  • 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, 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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