Salzburg 1674 2 kreuzer
This specimen was part of lot 2945 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €70 (about US$91 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Max Gandolph von Küenburg, 1668-1687. 2 Kreuzer (1/2 Batzen) 1674, 1675. 1,71 g und 1,68 g. Probszt 1692, 1693; Zöttl 2036, 2037. 2 Stück., Sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Max Gandolph of Küenburg, 1668-87, two kreuzers or half batzens of 1674-75. Two pieces, very fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type is not listed in the SCWC. 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, this specimen 1,71 g.
Catalog reference: KM unlisted, Probszt 1692; Zöttl 2036.
- 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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