Salzburg 1622 2 pfenning
This specimen was lot 2846 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €300 (about US$388 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. Einseitiger 2 Pfennig (Zweier) 1622. RR Sehr schön. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 33, München 1991, Nr. 1280. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron, 1619-53, uniface double penny of 1622. Very rare, very fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. The SCWC lists no two pfenning for this ruler. The half kreuzer, which had the same value, was not struck until 1623. In modern German, the name has been shortened to pfennig. The auctioneers didn't mention the obvious 1622/1 overdate. 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 0.54 g.
Catalog reference: KM unlisted, Probszt 1423 var.; Zöttl 1687.
- 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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