Salzburg 1725 2 kreuzer
This specimen was part of lot 3054 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €180 (about US$233 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Franz Anton von Harrach, 1709-1727. 2 Kreuzer (1/2 Reichsbatzen) 2 Kreuzer (1/2 Reichsbatzen) 1709, 1710, 1711, 1712, 1713, 1714, 1715, 1716, 1717, 1718, 1723, 1725. Probszt 2054-2063, 2065, 2066; Zöttl 2468-2477, 2479, 2480. 12 Stück., Sehr schön-vorzüglich. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Francis Anthony of Harrach, 1709-27, two kreuzers or half batzens of 1709-25. Twelve 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 1708-26 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 290, Probszt 2080; Zöttl 2480.
- 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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