Salzburg 1734 thaler Dav-1241
This specimen was part of lot 3084 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €1,400 (about US$1,809 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Leopold Anton Eleutherius von Firmian, 1727-1744. Reichstaler 1728, 1729, 1731, 1733, 1734. Dav-1241 (5x); Probszt 2138, 2139, 2141, 2143, 2144; Zöttl Type 3 = 2581, 2582, 2584, 2586, 2587. 5 Stück., Sehr schön und besser. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Leopold Anton Eleutherius von Firmian, 1727-44, thalers of 1728-34. Five 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 1728-35 and is the most common thaler of the reign. 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 329, Dav-1241; Probszt 2144; Zöttl 2587 (Type 3).
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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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