Salzburg 1593 6 thaler Dav-8194

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Künker sale 384, lot 2705

This specimen was lot 2705 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €30,000 (about US$38,766 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, 1587-1612. Sechsfache Reichstalerklippe 1593. Turmprägung. Geschenkmünze an die Truppen. Flaches Gepräge. Sechsfeldiges Stifts- und Familienwappen mit Mittelschild, dahinter thront St. Rudbertus mit Mitra, Salzgefäß und Krummstab v. v.//Turm in Wellen, umher die durch Köpfe personifizierten vier Winde, oben aus Wolken fallender Hagel. Von großer Seltenheit. Patina, Bearbeitungsspuren am Rand, sonst sehr schön-vorzüglich. Exemplar der Slg. Salzburg, Auktion Spink & Son 12, Zürich 1984, Nr. 71. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, 1587-1612, sextuple klippe thaler of 1593, tower design struck for the troops. Flat strike, sixfold arms of the bishopric and family below the enthroned St. Rupert with miter, saltcellar and crozier; reverse: tower in storm being blown by the four winds. Of the highest rarity, toned, tooling on edge but 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 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 171,44 g.

Catalog reference: Dav-8194; Probszt 794; Zöttl 950 (Type 5).

Source:

  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1484-1600, Frankfurt: Numismatischer Verlag, 1977.
  • 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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