Salzburg 1668 thaler Dav-3508

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Künker sale 384, part of lot 2930

This specimen was part of lot 2930 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €1,400 (about US$1,809 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Max Gandolph von Küenburg, 1668-1687. Reichstaler 1668, 1669, 1670, 1671, 1672, 1673, 1674, 1677, 1685. Dav-3508 (9x); Probszt 1652, 1653, 1654, 1655, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1660, 1662; Zöttl 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002. 9 Stück., Zum Teil mit kleinen Fehlern, sehr schön und besser. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Max Gandolph of Küenburg, 1668-87, thalers of 1668-85. Nine pieces, some with minor defects, very fine and better.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck 1668-77, 1680, 1685-86 and is common. Thalers were also struck for Max's predecessor Guidobald in 1668. 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.

Catalog reference: KM 190, Dav-3508; Probszt 1652; Zöttl 1992.

Source:

  • 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.
  • 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]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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