Salzburg 1682 3 kreuzer

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Künker sale 384, part of lot 2944

This specimen was part of lot 2944 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €240 (about US$310 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Max Gandolph von Küenburg, 1668-1687. 3 Kreuzer (Groschen) 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684. Probszt 1684, 1685, 1686, 1687, 1688, 1689, 1690; Zöttl 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034. 7 Stück., Meist sehr schön und besser. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Max Gandolph of Küenburg, 1668-87, three kreuzers or groschens of 1678-84. Seven pieces, mostly very fine and better.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck 1678-85. 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 228, Probszt 1688; Zöttl 2032.

Source:

  • 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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