Salzburg 1673-MG pfenning
This specimen was part of lot 2948 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €320 (about US$414 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Max Gandolph von Küenburg, 1668-1687. Einseitiger Pfennig 1672, 1673, 1675, 1677, 1679, 1682, 1683, 1685, 1686. Probszt 1728, 1729, 1731, 1733, 1735, 1738, 1739, 1741, 1742; Zöttl 2072, 2073, 2075, 2077, 2079, 2082, 2083, 2085, 2086. 9 Stück., Meist sehr schön und besser. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Max Gandolph of Küenburg, 1668-87, Uniface pennies of 1672-86. Nine pieces, mostly 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 1668-87 and has a low catalog value. It wasn't until the nineteenth century that "pfenning" was shortened to "pfennig". 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 or billon.
Catalog reference: KM 186, Probszt 1729; Zöttl 2073.
- 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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