Salzburg 1612 1/2 thaler KM-18
This specimen was lot 2749 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €160 (about US$207 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Markus Sittikus von Hohenems, 1612-1619. 1/2 Reichstalerklippe 1612. R Henkelspur, sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Mark Sittich of Hohenems, 1612-19, klippe half thaler of 1612. Rare, mount mark, very fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck in round (KM 17) and klippe format (shown here) in 1612. 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 14.06 g.
Catalog reference: KM 18 (klippe format), Probszt 977; Zöttl 1182 (Type 3).
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- 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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