Salzburg 1669 1/6 thaler

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Künker sale 384, part of lot 2941

This specimen was part of lot 2941 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €280 (about US$362 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Max Gandolph von Küenburg, 1668-1687. 1/6 Talerklippe 1669, 1674, 1677, 1679. Probszt 1675, 1676, 1677, 1679; Zöttl Type 2 = 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022. 4 Stück., Zum Teil mit kl. Fehlern, sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Max Gandolph of Küenburg, 1668-87, klippe one-sixth thalers of 1669-79. Four pieces, some with minor defects, very fine.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck 1669, 1674, 1677, 1679 in klippe format (shown here) and 1677 in round format (KM 227). One sixth thaler was twelve kreuzer or three batzen. 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 215, Probszt 1675; Zöttl 2019 (Type 2).

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.
  • 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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