Salzburg 1625 2 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 2828 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $108. The catalog description[1] noted, "SALZBURG: Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653, AR 2 kreuzer (1/2 landbatzen), 1625, lustrous, PCGS graded MS63." 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. This type, struck 1623-26, 1629-39, has a modest catalog value. In the mid seventeenth century, one thaler was 72 kreuzer, making this coin 1/36 thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 1.1 g, silver or billon, 18 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-86, Zöttl-1621, Probszt-1318.
- 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]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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