Salzburg 1715 1/2 thaler KM-310

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Künker sale 384, lot 3049

This specimen was lot 3049 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €800 (about US$1,034 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Franz Anton von Harrach, 1709-1727. 1/2 Reichstaler 1715. R Attraktives Exemplar mit hübscher Patina, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 2, Bad Mergentheim 1975, Nr. 532. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Francis Anthony of Harrach, 1709-27, half thaler of 1715. Rare, attractive example with handsome patina, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck 1712, 1715, 1718, 1720 and 1725. Franz Anton was the first archbishop in several generations to place his portrait on the coinage. This, however, is the traditional half thaler with the Madonna on the obverse. Bust and Madonna half thalers are both quite scarce and are priced higher than the thalers. 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, this specimen 14.57 g.

Catalog reference: KM 310, Probszt 2028; Zöttl 2443 (Type 4).

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, 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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