Salzburg 1684 15 kreuzer
This specimen was part of lot 2939 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €180 (about US$233 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Max Gandolph von Küenburg, 1668-1687. 15 Kreuzer 1681, 1683, 1684, 1685, 1686. Probszt 1670, 1671, 1672, 1673, 1674; Zöttl 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017. 5 Stück., Meist sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Max Gandolph of Küenburg, 1668-87, fifteen kreuzers of 1681-86. Five pieces, mostly 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 1681-86. Fifteen kreuzer was one quarter gulden. 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.
Catalog reference: KM 230, Probszt 1672; Zöttl 2015.
- 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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