Salzburg 1658 1/4 thaler KM-161
This specimen was lot 2883 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €300 (about US$388 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Guidobald von Thun und Hohenstein, 1654-1668. 1/4 Reichstalerklippe 1658. Sehr attraktives Exemplar mit feiner Patina, sehr schön-vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 300, Frankfurt/Main 1980, Nr. 1304. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Guidobald of Thun and Hohenstein, 1654-68, klippe quarter thaler of 1658. Very attractive example with fine 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 klippe type was struck 1654, 1658, 1668. A round quarter thaler (KM 182) was also xtruck in 1658. 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 7.01 g.
Catalog reference: KM 161, Probszt 1488; Zöttl 1813 (Type 2).
- 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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