Salzburg 1620 thaler Dav-3497A
This specimen was lot 2824 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €460 (about US$595 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. Reichstalerklippe 1620. Dav-3497 Anm.; R Feine Patina, Henkelspur, kl. Schrötlingsfehler am Rand, sehr schön-vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 17, München 1983, Nr. 672. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron, 1619-53, klippe thaler of 1620. Rare, fine patina, mount mark, small edge defect, 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 klippe format (shown here) in 1620 and 1622. The round version (KM 61) was struck 1620-24. 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 28.20 g.
Catalog reference: KM 62, Dav-3497A, Probszt 1188; Zöttl 1506 (Type 5).
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- Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
- 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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