Salzburg 1661 1/6 thaler KM-160
This specimen was part of lot 2884 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €150 (about US$194 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Guidobald von Thun und Hohenstein, 1654-1668. 1/6 Talerklippe 1656, 1661. 4,72 g und 4,77 g. Probszt 1495, 1499; Zöttl 1820 (Type 2), 1822 (Type 2). 2 Stück., Henkelspur (1x), sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Guidobald of Thun and Hohenstein, 1654-68, klippe one-sixth thalers of 1656 and 1661. Two pieces, one with mount mark, very 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 1654-63 and 1666. A round one-sixth thaler (KM 181) was struck in 1656, 1658, 1661, 1666. In the mid seventeenth century, one thaler was 72 kreuzer, making this coin nine kreuzer or three groschen. 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 4,77 g.
Catalog reference: KM 160, Probszt 1499; Zöttl 1822 (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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