Salzburg 1622 thaler Dav-3497
This specimen was lot 2817 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €190 (about US$246 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. Reichstaler 1622. R Sehr schön-vorzüglich. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron, 1619-53, thaler of 1622. Rare, 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 1620-24. A klippe version (KM 62) was struck in 1620 and 1622. 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 28.17 g.
Catalog reference: KM 61, Dav-3497, Probszt 1192; Zöttl 1464 (Type 1).
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- 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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