Salzburg 1700 1/2 thaler
This specimen was lot 70119 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, February 2020), where it sold for $480. The catalog description[1] noted, "AUSTRIA. Salzburg. 1/2 Taler, 1700/699. Johann Ernst von Thun und Hohenstein. PCGS MS-64 Gold Shield. A beautifully struck up (rolled) coin, showing a strong curvature in the planchet, and with dark gray toned, original surfaces." The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. In the seventeenth century it was blessed with a number of productive silver mines and the prince-archbishop was a prolific issuer of coins, particularly thalers. This type was struck 1687, 1694-1700, 1702-1708 and is fairly common. The SCWC does not mention the overdate.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: KM-253.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The February 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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