Salzburg 1630 1/6 thaler
This specimen was lot 2838 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €240 (about US$310 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. 1/6 Taler 1630. Hübsche Patina, sehr schön-vorzüglich. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron, 1619-53, one-sixth thaler of 1630. Handsome patina, 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 seems to be the first issue of this denomination. It was struck 1627-30 and 1644. A klippe version (KM 108) exists, struck 1627, 1642, 1646-52. 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 4.76 g.
Catalog reference: KM 107.1, Probszt -; Zöttl 1574 (Type 1).
- 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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