Salzburg 1614 1/2 thaler KM-37

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Künker sale 384, lot 2750

This specimen was lot 2750 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €340 (about US$439 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Markus Sittikus von Hohenems, 1612-1619. 1/2 Reichstalerklippe 1614. R Hübsche Patina, winz. Schrötlingsfehler, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Mark Sittich of Hohenems, 1612-19, klippe half thaler of 1614. Rare, handsome patina, minor die cracks, 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 type was struck in round (KM 36) and klippe format (shown here) 1614-18. 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 14.28 g.

Catalog reference: KM 37 (klippe format), Probszt 979; Zöttl 1183 (Type 4).

Source:

  • 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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