Salzburg 1586 1/2 thaler Z-798

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Künker sale 384, lot 2662

This specimen was lot 2662 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €1,500 (about US$1,938 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Georg von Küenburg, 1586-1587. 1/2 Reichstalerklippe 1586. RR Hübsche Patina, sauber gestopftes Loch, sonst sehr schön-vorzüglich. (archbishopric of Salzburg, George of Kuenburg, 1586-87, klippe half thaler of 1586. Very rare, nice patina, plugged, still very fine to extremely fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This klippe half thaler was accompanied by another half thaler featuring St. Rupert seated with St. Virgilius (Zöttl 797). George's reign was brief and his coins are few but Davenport records similar thalers for 1586 (Dav-8178, two saints, and Dav-8179, one saint). 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 14.25 g.

Catalog reference: Probszt 697; Zöttl 798 (Type 3).

Source:

  • 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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