Salzburg 1729 1/2 kreuzer
This specimen was part of lot 3089 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €120 (about US$155 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Leopold Anton Eleutherius von Firmian, 1727-1744. Einseitiger 1/2 Kreuzer 1729, 1730, 1732, 1734, 1735, 1736, 1737, 1739, 1741. Probszt 2160, 2161, 2162, 2164, 2165, 2166, 2167, 2168, 2169; Zöttl 2604, 2405, 2606, 2608, 2609, 2610, 2611, 2612, 2613. 9 Stück., Sehr schön und besser. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Leopold Anton Eleutherius von Firmian, 1727-44, uniface half kreuzers of 1729-41. Nine pieces, very fine and better.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck 1729-43 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.
Catalog reference: KM 333, Probszt 2160; Zöttl 2604.
- 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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