Salzburg 1593 1/2 thaler

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Künker sale 384, lot 2703

This specimen was lot 2703 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €3,000 (about US$3,877 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, 1587-1612. 1/2 Reichstaler 1593. Turmprägung. Geschenkmünze an die Truppen. Flaches Gepräge; Probszt -; Ediert in der Neuauflage Zöttl 2014: Nr. 936 a. Von allergrößter Seltenheit, wohl unediert. Hübsche Patina, Schrötlingsfehler im Feld der Rückseite, vorzüglich. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, 1587-1612, half thaler of 1593, tower design struck for the troops. Flat strike. Extremely rare, unpublished prior to Zöttl (2014). handsome patina, die cracks in the field on the reverse, extremely fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This series of 1593 included sixteen ducats (Fr-675) down to three ducats (Fr-687), some in klippe format, and a long series of silver coins from six thaler down to half thaler. All were intended to pay troops raised for an expedition against the Turks and all are rare. 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 14,34 g.

Catalog reference: Probszt unlisted; Zöttl 936a.

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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