Salzburg 1649 thaler Dav-3504
This specimen was lot 20193 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Philadelphia, August 2018), where it sold for $1,200. The catalog description[1] noted, "AUSTRIA. Salzburg. Taler, 1649. Paris Graf von Londron (1619-53). NGC MS-64. Impressively detailed with bold reflective characteristics in the fields and additive olive golden tone that concentrates towards the edges. SCARCE and highly desirable quality for any 17th century Taler, with this coin being the single finest graded of the type at NGC." 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. This type was struck 1623-53 and is one of the commonest thalers of the seventeenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 29 g, 0.875 fine silver, 42 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-87; Dav-3504.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
- Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio and Chris Chatigny, The August 2018 Philadelphia ANA Auction: World Coins and Selections from the El Dorado Collection of Colombian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2018.
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