Salzburg 1627 pfenning
This specimen was part of lot 2847 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €750 (about US$969 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. Pfennig 1626, 1627, 1628, 1629, 1630, 1631, 1632, 1634, 1635, 1636, 1638, 1639, 1640, 1643, 1645, 1651. Probszt 1383-1389, 1391-1396, 1399, 1401, -; Zöttl Type 2 = 1693-1699, 1701-1707, 1710, 1712, 1718 (RRR). 1x Von großer Seltenheit. 16 Stück., Meist sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron, 1619-53, pennies of 1626-51. Sixteen pieces, one very rare, mostly very fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. The pfenning was struck 1623-53 for archbishop Paris and has a very low catalog value, which is why the auctioneers threw this example in with fifteen others. In modern German, the name has been shortened to pfennig. 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 or billon.
Catalog reference: KM 82, Probszt 1384; Zöttl 1694.
- 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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