Salzburg 1593 3 thaler Dav-8197

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Künker sale 293, lot 1748

This specimen was lot 1748 in Künker sale 293 (Osnabrück, Germany, July 2017), where it sold for €3,400 (about US$4,583 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"DIE GEISTLICHKEIT IN DEN HABSBURGISCHEN ERBLANDEN, Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, 1587-1612. Dreifache Reichstalerklippe 1593. Turmprägung. Geschenkmünze an die Truppen. RR Feine Patina, winz. Schrötlingsfehler, min. berieben, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (associated church principalities of the inherited lands of Austria, Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, 1587-1612, triple klippe thaler of 1593, tower reverse, donation to the troops. Rare, fine patina, minor edge defects, some smoothing, very fine to extremely fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. In the seventeenth century it 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. Davenport assigns the regular round issue and the klippe shown here the same catalog number. On this occasion, the archbishop also struck Dav-8192 (single thaler), -8193 (8 thaler), -8194 (6 thaler), -8195 (5 thaler), -8196 (4 thaler), -8197 (triple thaler, shown here), -8198 (double thaler), -8199 (1½ thaler) plus klippes.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 85,38 g.

Catalog reference: Zöttl 953, Dav-8197.

Source:

  • Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1484-1600, Frankfurt: Numismatischer Verlag, 1977.
  • 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 Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Katalog 293: Münzen aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit u. a. die westfälischen Privatsammlungen Werner Bröker und Bernd Terletzki, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2017.

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