Salzburg 1740 pfenning
This specimen was part of lot 3090 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €280 (about US$362 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Leopold Anton Eleutherius von Firmian, 1727-1744. Einseitiger Pfennig Einseitiger Pfennig 1728, 1729, 1730, 1731, 1732, 1733, 1736, 1737, 1738, 1739, 1740, 1741, 1742, 1744. Probszt 2171-2176, 2179-2185, 2187; Zöttl 2615-2620, 2623-2629, 2631. 14 Stück., Meist sehr schön-vorzüglich. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Leopold Anton Eleutherius von Firmian, 1727-44, uniface pennies of 1728-44. Fourteen pieces, mostly 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 1728-44 and has a low catalog value. Four pfenning made a kreuzer and 90 kreuzer made a thaler. 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 324, Probszt 2181; Zöttl 2627.
- 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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