Salzburg 1677 kreuzer
This specimen was part of lot 2946 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €380 (about US$491 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Max Gandolph von Küenburg, 1668-1687. 1 Kreuzer 1668, 1669, 1670, 1671, 1672, 1673, 1674, 1676, 1677, 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685, 1686. Probszt 1695-1701, 1703-1713; Zöttl 2039-2045, 2047-2057. 18 Stück., Meist sehr schön-vorzüglich. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Max Gandolph of Küenburg, 1668-87, kreuzers of 1668-86. Eighteen pieces, mostly 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 1668-86 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 187, Probszt 1704; Zöttl 2048.
- 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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