Salzburg 1625 thaler Dav-3504A
This specimen was lot 1980 in Künker Auction 425 (Osnabrück, July 2025), where it sold for €500 (about US$708 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"HABSBURGISCHE ERBLANDE-ÖSTERREICH · DIE GEISTLICHKEIT IN DEN HABSBURGISCHEN ERBLANDEN, SALZBURG, ERZBISTUM Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. Reichstalerklippe 1625. R Hübsche Patina, sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris of Lodron, 1619-53, klippe thaler of 1625. Rare, handsome patina, very fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. In the seventeenth century it was blessed with a number of productive silver mines and the prince-archbishop was a prolific issuer of coins, particularly thalers. The round type was struck 1623-53 and is one of the commonest thalers of the seventeenth century. The klippe is recorded for 1624-25, 1628-29, 1631-32 and 1636-38 and is much less common.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: silver, this specimen 28,14 g.
Catalog reference: KM 91, Dav-3504A; Zöttl 1510.
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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 425: Gold coins from the Medieval and Modern Times, from the Mohr family collection, e.g. | Silver coins, e.g. highlights of medallic art | German coins after 1871, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2025.
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