Salzburg 1716 thaler Dav-1238

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Heritage sale 3032, lot 24137
photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries

This specimen was lot 24137 in Heritage sale 3032 (Chicago, April 2014), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "Salzburg. Franz Anton Taler 1716, MS61 NGC. A fully attractive example with unbelievable, silvery-gray patination and underlying pearlescent toning. A remarkable representation of Madonna and child with only one certified example grading higher." 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 1712-22 and is priced about three times the thalers of Mozart's time.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM 311, Dav-1238.

Source:

  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1964.
  • 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]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and David Michaels, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3032, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2014.

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