Salzburg 1753 1/2 kreuzer
This specimen was part of lot 3177 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €120 (about US$155 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Sigismund III. von Schrattenbach, 1753-1771. Einseitiger 1/2 Kreuzer 1753, 1758, 1760. Probszt 2370, 2371, 2372; Zöttl Type 1 = 3098, Type 2 = 3099, 3100. 3 Stück., Sehr schön und besser. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Sigismund III of Schrattenbach, 1753-71, uniface half kreuzers of 1753-60. Three 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 1753, 1758 and 1760 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 367; Probszt 2370; Zöttl 3098.
- 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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