Salzburg 1677 1/6 thaler KM-215
This specimen was lot 2940 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €110 (about US$142 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Max Gandolph von Küenburg, 1668-1687. 1/6 Taler 1677. R Reste von alter Vergoldung, sehr schön. Exemplar der Auktion Gerhard Hirsch Nachf. 142, München 1984, Nr. 1738. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine beschnittene 1/6 Talerklippe. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Max Gandolph of Küenburg, 1668-87, one-sixth thaler of 1677. Rare, traces of an old gilding, 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, 1674, 1677, 1679 in klippe format (shown here) and 1677 in round format (KM 227). One sixth thaler was twelve kreuzer or three 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, this specimen 3.12 g. It should weigh about 4.8 g.
Catalog reference: KM 215, Probszt 1678; Zöttl 2018 (Type 1).
- 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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