Salzburg 1720 4 kreuzer
This specimen was part of lot 3053 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €240 (about US$310 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Franz Anton von Harrach, 1709-1727. 4 Kreuzer (Batzen) 4 Kreuzer (Reichsbatzen) 1718, 1719, 1720, 1721, 1722, 1723, 1724, 1725, 1726, 1727. Probszt 2043-2052; Zöttl 2457-2466. 10 Stück., Sehr schön-vorzüglich. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Francis Anthony of Harrach, 1709-27, four kreuzers or batzens of 1718-27. Ten pieces, very fine to 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 1718-27 and has a low catalog value. 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 or billon.
Catalog reference: KM 315, Probszt 2045; Zöttl 2459.
- 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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