Salzburg 1615 1/2 thaler KM-37

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Künker sale 384, part of lot 2751

This specimen was part of lot 2751 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €825 (about US$1,066 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Markus Sittikus von Hohenems, 1612-1619. 1/2 Reichstalerklippe 1615, 1617, 1619. Probszt 981, 983, 985; Zöttl Type 4 = 1184, 1186, 1187. 3 Stück., Mit Fehlern, sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Mark Sittich of Hohenems, 1612-19, klippe half thalers of 1615-19. Three pieces, with defects, 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 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.

Catalog reference: KM 37 (klippe format), Probszt 981; Zöttl 1184 (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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