Salzburg 1626 1/4 thaler KM-97
This specimen was lot 2832 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €420 (about US$543 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. 1/4 Reichstaler 1626. R Hübsche Patina, vorzüglich. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron, 1619-53, quarter thaler of 1626. Rare, handsome patina, extremely fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. The quarter thaler was redesigned in 1624 to show the Madonna and Child on the obverse and St. Rupert on the reverse. The SCWC shows four varieties: KM 97 (round, with square-topped arms, struck 1625-26, 1639 and 1652, shown here), KM 88 (klippe, with square-topped arms), KM 98 (round, with oval arms) and KM 103 (klippe, with oval arms). The years of production overlapped, making it confusing. 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 7.04 g.
Catalog reference: KM 97, Probszt 1267; Zöttl 1540 (Type 3).
- 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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