Salzburg 1740-FMK thaler Dav-1242

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Künker sale 293, lot 1761

This specimen was lot 1761 in Künker sale 293 (Osnabrück, Germany, July 2017), where it sold for €440 (about US$593 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"DIE GEISTLICHKEIT IN DEN HABSBURGISCHEN ERBLANDEN, Leopold Anton Eleutherius von Firmian, 1727-1744. Reichstaler 1740. Kleines Porträt. R Sehr schön. (associated church principalities of the inherited lands of Austria, Leopold Anton Eleutherius von Firmian, 1727-1744, thaler of 1740, small bust, scarce, very fine.)"

While most Salzburg thalers are common, this one of 1738-44 is scarce. The archbishop is remembered in history for expelling twenty thousand Protestants from his domain in 1731, to the benefit of the king of Prussia who settled them in East Prussia.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM 338, Zöttl 2578, Dav-1242.

Source:

  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1964.
  • 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 Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Katalog 293: Münzen aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit u. a. die westfälischen Privatsammlungen Werner Bröker und Bernd Terletzki, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2017.

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