Salzburg 1615 pfennig

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Künker sale 384, lot 2763

This specimen was lot 2763 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €240 (about US$310 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Markus Sittikus von Hohenems, 1612-1619. Klippenförmiger Rechenpfennig 1615. R Attraktives Exemplar mit hübscher Patina, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 10, München 1980, Nr. 593. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Mark Sittich of Hohenems, 1612-19, klippe penny of 1615. Rare, attractive example with handsome patina, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. The SCWC does not list this denomination in klippe format for this ruler. The round version (KM 11) is listed for 1612-19. 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 or billon, this specimen 3.28 g.

Catalog reference: KM 11 (round format), Probszt 1039; Zöttl 1242 (Type 2).

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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