Salzburg 1621 24 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 2852 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €850 (about US$1,098 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. Kipper-24 Kreuzer 1621. RR Schürfspur im Feld der Rückseite, sehr schön. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 33, München 1991, Nr. 1277. Erworben von Otto Mages, Rottach-Egern. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron, 1619-53, kipper twenty-four kreuzer of 1621. Very rare, some tooling in the reverse, very fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. Altho nominally one-third of a thaler, this "kipper 24 kreuzer" is too light and is probably debased as well, being an inflationary issue (1620-24) of the Thirty Years War, along with 12, 48, 60 and 120 kreuzer. Once the kipper period was over, there was a concerted effort to recall and melt down the debased issues, accounting for their rarity today. 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 6.71 g.
Catalog reference: KM 56, Probszt 1416; Zöttl 1728.
- 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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