Salzburg 1677 1/2 kreuzer
This specimen was part of lot 2947 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. Einseitiger 1/2 Kreuzer 1671, 1677, 1680, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685, 1686. Probszt 1714, 1715, 1716, 1718, 1719, 1720, 1721, 1722; Zöttl 2058, 2059, 2060, 2062, 2063, 2064, 2065, 2066. 8 Stück., Sehr schön-vorzüglich. 1671: Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 10, München 1980, Nr. 658. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Max Gandolph of Küenburg, 1668-87, uniface half kreuzers of 1671-86. Eight pieces, Very fine to extremely fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck 1671, 1677, 1680-87 and has a low catalog value. 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 221, Probszt 1715; Zöttl 2059.
- 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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