Salzburg 1624 1/2 thaler KM-90
This specimen was lot 2829 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €900 (about US$1,163 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. 1/2 Reichstalerklippe 1624. R Hübsche Patina, kl. Schrötlingsfehler, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron, 1619-53, klippe half thaler of 1624. Rare, handsome patina, minor die cracks, 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 1624-31 and 1636-39. The round version (KM 89) was struck 1621-22 and is slightly more expensive. 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 14.25 g.
Catalog reference: KM 90, Probszt 1236; Zöttl 1526 (Type 5).
- 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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