Salzburg 1622 120 kreuzer

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Künker sale 384, lot 2850

This specimen was lot 2850 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €120 (about US$155 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. Kippertaler (120 Kreuzer) 1622. R Korrodiert, fast sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron, 1619-53, 120 kreuzer of 1622. Rare, corroded, about very fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. Altho nominally five-thirds of a thaler, this "kipper thaler" is too light and is probably debased as well, being an inflationary issue (1620-24) of the Thirty Years War, along with 12, 24, 48 and 60 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 27.32 g.

Catalog reference: KM 60, Probszt 1411; Zöttl 1723.

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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