Salzburg 1705 1/2 thaler

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Künker sale 293, lot 1757

This specimen was lot 1757 in Künker sale 293 (Osnabrück, Germany, July 2017), where it sold for €130 (about US$175 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"DIE GEISTLICHKEIT IN DEN HABSBURGISCHEN ERBLANDEN, Johann Ernst von Thun und Hohenstein, 1687-1709. 1/2 Reichstaler 1705. R Feine Patina, winz. Schrötlingsfehler am Rand, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (associated church principalities of the inherited lands of Austria, John Ernest of Thun und Hohenstein, 1687-1709, half thaler of 1705. Scarce, fine patina, some edge defects, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"

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.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: Zöttl 2190, KM 253.

Source:

  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
  • [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Katalog 293: Münzen aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit u. a. die westfälischen Privatsammlungen Werner Bröker und Bernd Terletzki, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2017.

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