Salzburg 1586 pfennig

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Künker sale 384, lot 2665

This specimen was lot 2665 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €950 (about US$1,228 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Georg von Küenburg, 1586-1587. Klippenförmiger Rechenpfennig 1586. RR Vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 33, München 1991, Nr. 1184. (archbishopric of Salzburg, George of Kuenburg, 1586-87, klippe penny of 1586. Very rare, extremely 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 guldenthaler. Klippes were usually made for presentation We don't know why such a small denomination was thought needed for presentation. 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 or billon, this specimen 3.55 g.

Catalog reference: Probszt 706; Zöttl 809 (Type 2).

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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