Salzburg 1674 thaler Dav-3508
This specimen was lot 76166 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, November 2025), where it sold for $408. The catalog description[1] noted, "AUSTRIA. Salzburg. Taler, 1674. Salzburg Mint. Maximilian Gandolph. PCGS AU-50." The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. 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. This type was struck 1668-77, 1680, 1685-86 and is common.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: Dav-3508; KM-190.
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- Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, November 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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