Salzburg 1669 1/9 thaler

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Künker sale 384, part of lot 2943

This specimen was part of lot 2943 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €180 (about US$233 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Max Gandolph von Küenburg, 1668-1687. 1/9 Talerklippe 1669, 1672, 1673. Probszt 1680, 1681, 1682; Zöttl Type 2 = 2025, 2026, 2027. 3 Stück., Gestopftes Loch (2x), sehr schön. 1669: Erworben im Januar 1985. 1672: Erworben im März 1985 von der Partin Bank, Bad Mergentheim. 1673: Exemplar der Auktion Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. 314, Frankfurt/Main 1985, Nr. 2411. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Max Gandolph of Küenburg, 1668-87, klippe one-ninth thalers of 1669-73. Three pieces, two have been plugged, 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, 1672-73 in klippe format (shown here) and 1673 in round format (KM 222). One ninth thaler was eight kreuzer or two 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 214, Probszt 1680; Zöttl 2025.

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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