Salzburg 1666 1/9 thaler
This specimen was lot 2885 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €130 (about US$168 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Guidobald von Thun und Hohenstein, 1654-1668. 1/9 Talerklippe 1666. Sehr schön. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 10, München 1980, Nr. 630. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Guidobald of Thun and Hohenstein, 1654-68, klippe one-ninth thaler of 1666. 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 1656, 1660, 1666. No round version exists, as far as we can tell. In the mid seventeenth century, one thaler was 72 kreuzer, making this coin six kreuzer or two 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 3.13 g.
Catalog reference: KM 180, Probszt 1506; Zöttl 1828 (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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