Salzburg 1718 thaler Dav-1238
This specimen was lot 3042 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €550 (about US$711 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Franz Anton von Harrach, 1709-1727. Reichstaler 1718. Hübsche Patina, vorzüglich. Erworben bei der Firma Schwaighofer, Salzburg. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Francis Anthony of Harrach, 1709-27, thaler of 1718. Handsome patina, extremely fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck 1712-18 and 1722. Franz Anton was the first archbishop in several generations to place his portrait on the coinage. This one, however, is the traditional thaler with the Madonna on the obverse. 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 28.86 g.
Catalog reference: KM 311, Dav-1238; Probszt 2016; Zöttl 2428 (Type 7).
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- [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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